Directors: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Writers: Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Stars: Ben Mendelsohn, Yvonne Landry, Anthony Howard
Storyline:
Down on his luck and facing financial hardship, GERRY teams
up with a younger charismatic poker player named CURTIS in an attempt to change
his luck. The two set off on a road trip through the South with visions of
winning back what has been lost.
Details:
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: 13 August 2015 (USA )
Filming Locations: New
Orleans , Louisiana , USA
User Reviews:
Not since the movie Sideways, has a film tried SO hard and
achieved nothing.
For starters, the first half of the movie has so much loud
background noise and music that you cant hear the dialog. When the sound editor
does show up and you can hear the dialog you find out they really have nothing
exceptional to say.
The two characters are likable enough, but the story doesn't
do them justice. You go to a casino, your either going to win or lose, but this
movie thinks that's enough to get by on,......its not.
The directors talk about going to a riverboat and seeing all
the gamblers and interesting people and "knew there was a story there"....probably
true but most stories are pathetic, tired and sad
How about giving your movie a little more depth. So many
ideas and relationships were not explored.
Gambling and casinos can be a vehicle to tell a story, but
it isn't interesting when it IS the story.
When the film is over your caught thinking....did I miss
something? And whether you did or not (and you did not)the fact that your
asking the question isn't the feeling a movie go-er wants to have.
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