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Rounders[Widescreen Collector's AC3 Dolby] - DVD

SKU: 6726563 | Release Date: 9/7/2004

Rating: R for Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Profanity

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Rating: R for Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Profanity
Format: DVD
Theatrical Release: 1998
Length: 121 minutes
Screen Formats: Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV
Genre: General Dramas
Studio: Miramax
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Other Formats: Blu-ray Disc (Widescreen Dubbed AC3 Dts) - $34.99

Synopsis

John Dahl directed this exploration of New York private clubs devoted to high-stakes poker, with first-person narration from the film's central figure, law student Mike McDermott (Matt Damon), who loses his entire savings to Russian club owner Teddy KGB (John Malkovich). Mike then turns away from cards, devoting his attentions to his law studies and his live-in girlfriend Jo (Gretchen Mol), who's concerned when Mike's former gambling buddy Worm (Edward Norton) is released from prison. She has good reason to worry, since it takes Worm only a matter of minutes to draw Mike back into poker action. When she learns Mike has returned to the poker clubs, she moves out, and Mike begins to lose interest in his studies. Worm has a pre-prison debt, and the threatening Grama (Michael Rispoli) wants the money. Mike not only indulges the irresponsible Worm, he gets involved in Worm's debts. When Grama demands $15,000 on a five-day deadline, the two buddies go into high gear with a non-stop, no-sleep gambling binge that spirals downward toward an ultimate confrontation with Teddy KGB. Darkened club interiors and New York nights are captured by the cinematography of Jean Yves Escoffier, who moved from French films (the 1991 Les Amants du Pont Neuf) to American movies with the reflective surfaces of Excess Baggage (1997) and the patina of pathos found in Harmony Korine's experimental Gummo (1997). Shown at the 1998 Venice Film Festival and the 1998 Montreal Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide

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Languages/Sound

Eng/Fre

Screen Formats

Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV

Subtitle Languages

Spa/Fre

Additional Features

Set-top game - "Heads Up Texas Hold 'Em" Behind the scenes special Inside professional Poker Feature commentary with professional poker players Feature commentary with director John Dahl, screenwriters David Levien and Brian Koppelman, and actor Edward Norton Champion poker tips (from our professionals) Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound Widescreen (2.35:1) enhanced for 16x9 televisions French language track Spanish subtitles

Series

Miramax Collector's Series

Chapters

Side #1 --
1. Program Start [:24]
2. "A True Grinder" [4:03]
3. "Everyone Goes Bust" [6:10]
4. Gone Straight [1:10]
5. The Judges' Game [3:43]
6. "I Didn't Even Play" [3:14]
7. "Someone Called Worm..." [5:24]
8. Back in the Game [3:16]
9. "Caveat Emptor, Pal" [3:50]
10. Nowhere Near the Cards [4:16]
11. The Lesson Never Learned [6:17]
12. "Alive for the First Time" [4:23]
13. "Our Destiny Chooses Us" [6:03]
14. A Night at the Taj [6:05]
15. The Juice is Running [1:27]
16. Folding the Hand [:04]
17. "Cut Him Off" [3:05]
18. "Fixing to go Down HArd" [4:10]
19. "Then It's Me, Too" [3:17]
20. Building the Bankroll [3:47]
21. Playing the Cops [3:59]
22. "Rounding Again" [6:28]
23. To Play the Best [3:19]
24. "I'm Looking for a Game" [6:54]
25. The Safe Bet? [4:39]
26. Risking It All [5:04]
27. Vegas and the World Series [6:56]
28. End Credits [2:51]

Cast

Tom Aldredge - Judge Marinacci
Martin Landau - Abe Petrovsky
John Malkovich - Teddy KGB
Josh Mostel - Zagosh
Edward Norton - Worm
Gretchen Mol - Jo
John Turturro - Joey Kinish
Lenny Clarke - Savino
Matt Damon - Mike McDermott
Michael Rispoli - Grama
Melina Kanakaredes - Barbara
Famke Janssen - Petra
Chris Messina

Crew

Set Designer: Beth Kushnick
Executive Producer: Kerry Orent
Sound/Sound Designer: Mark Weingarten
Musical Direction/Supervision: Randall Poster
Executive Producer: Bob Weinstein ,Harvey Weinstein
Casting: Avy Kaufman
Composer (Music Score): Christopher Young
Musical Direction/Supervision: Amanda Scheer-Demme
Executive Producer: Bobby Cohen
Editor: Scott Chestnut
Art Director: Rick Butler
Producer: Ted Demme
Director: John Dahl
Cinematographer: Jean-Yves Escoffier
Costume Designer: Terry Dresbach
Producer: Joel Stillerman
Production Designer: Rob Pearson
Associate Producer: Christopher Goode
Screenwriter: Brian Koppelman ,David Levien
Associate Producer: Tracy Falco
Musical Direction/Supervision: Amanda Demme
Production Designer: Robert Pearson

Rounders: AMG Review
Perry Seibert , AMG

Mike is apologizing to his law school girlfriend for how he ended their relationship. She says, "Call me if you need a lawyer." Mike responds, "I will. And I will." That response neatly encapsulates the best aspect of Rounders, a film that takes a clear look at the type of person who becomes involved in the world of high stakes gambling. Matt Damon, playing against the type he had created a year earlier with his work in Good Will Hunting and The Rainmaker, embodies Mike's self-destructive tendencies while simultaneously revealing a self-awareness. He knows he will mess up, hence the wonderful goodbye line to Jo. Mike's best friend Worm is everything Mike would be without his self-awareness. Hunted, desperate, and selfish, Edward Norton's performance evokes Robert De Niro's Johnny Boy in Mean Streets, but not so much so that it is distracting. It is as if Worm saw Mean Streets as a child and decided he had found his role model. Like Dahl's previous film, The Last Seduction, Rounders is a character study, but unlike that film it is a character study that feels like real life. Where Bridgett in The Last Seduction was a love letter to every femme fatale in film history, Mike in Rounders feels like a guy that one might actually know. In addition to the clear-eyed look at the gambling life, Rounders boasts superb supporting performances by Martin Landau, John Turturro, and John Malkovich (who employs an outrageous Boris Badinoff accent that shouldn't work but does). Dahl, with the help of his performers and a solid screenplay, creates an entertaining modern noir. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

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