Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American gangster Teddy KGB. Promising his partner Jo he'll give up, he meets up with best friend Lester 'Worm' Murphy, just out of prison and owing lots of money to the wrong kind of people. McDermott becomes his co-guarantor and now there's only one way to raise the money, the pair have to get back into the game.
- new york city
- friendship
- casino
- poker
- gambling
- call girl
- bratva (russian mafia)
- gambling debt
- roulette
- gain
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- John Malkovich — Teddy KGB
- Famke Janssen — Petra
- Martin Landau — Abe Petrovsky
- Michael Rispoli — Grama
- Goran Višnjić — Maurice
- Mal Z. Lawrence — Irving
- Paul Cicero — Russian Thug
- Ray Iannicelli — Kenny
- Merwin Goldsmith — Sy
- Sonny Zito — Tony
- Josh Mostel — Zagosh
- Directed
- John Dahl
- Written
- Brian Koppelman, David Levien
Production
- Rating
- 7.0 / 10 · 1,984 ratings
- Studio
- Miramax, Spanky Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
