Movie
Rounders
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1998-09-11
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Miramax, Spanky Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Matt Damon as Mike McDermott
- Edward Norton as Lester 'Worm' Murphy
- John Turturro as Joey Knish
- Gretchen Mol as Jo
- John Malkovich as Teddy KGB
- Famke Janssen as Petra
- Martin Landau as Abe Petrovsky
- Michael Rispoli as Grama
- Goran Višnjić as Maurice
- Mal Z. Lawrence as Irving
- Paul Cicero as Russian Thug
- Ray Iannicelli as Kenny
Crew
- John Dahl - Director
- David Levien - Screenplay
- Brian Koppelman - Screenplay
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