2008 Woodie Awards
A weekend dedicated to… GAMBLING
Issue date: 3/26/08 Section: Lifeline
In theaters:
"21"
Based on true events, stars Jim Sturgess and Kate Bosworth as Massachusetts Institute of Technology students who are taught by their math professor (Kevin Spacey) how to count cards and beat the Vegas casinos at the blackjack tables. Co-stars Laurence Fishburne as a casino security specialist determined to bring down the MIT blackjack team.
Rent these:
"Casino"
Robert de Niro, Joe Pesci and Sharon Stone star in Martin Scorsese's widely praised masterpiece about the mobsters that run the gambling and crime in Las Vegas during the '70s and '80s, and the temptations and addictions that proved to be their downfall.
"Rounders"
The movie that helped ignite the popularity of Texas Hold 'Em poker stars Matt Damon as a law school student who risks everything he has to help his best friend (Edward Norton) pay off a gambling debt the only way they know how - playing a lot of poker.
"Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels"
The film that made names for both Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham, it focuses around four working Joes who lose big on a card game, and plan a big heist in order to pay off their debts.
"Casino Royale" (1967)
Unlike the dead-serious 2006 version, this trippy 1967 send-up of Ian Fleming's story of a British spy who fights a terrorist organization through a high-stakes game of baccarat is both supremely entertaining and nigh-incomprehensible. Huge ensemble cast includes Peter Sellers, Orson Welles and Woody Allen.
"Rain Man"
Tom Cruise plays a self-centered automobile dealer who is left with nearly no inheritance after his father's passing. He finds out that most of the fortune had been left to Raymond (Dustin Hoffman), the autistic, math-genius brother he never knew existed. Cruise's Charlie takes Raymond cross-country to Las Vegas, where he plans to use his brother's near-supernatural skill with numbers to make a fortune.
lifeliine@cm-life.com
"21"
Based on true events, stars Jim Sturgess and Kate Bosworth as Massachusetts Institute of Technology students who are taught by their math professor (Kevin Spacey) how to count cards and beat the Vegas casinos at the blackjack tables. Co-stars Laurence Fishburne as a casino security specialist determined to bring down the MIT blackjack team.
Rent these:
"Casino"
Robert de Niro, Joe Pesci and Sharon Stone star in Martin Scorsese's widely praised masterpiece about the mobsters that run the gambling and crime in Las Vegas during the '70s and '80s, and the temptations and addictions that proved to be their downfall.
"Rounders"
The movie that helped ignite the popularity of Texas Hold 'Em poker stars Matt Damon as a law school student who risks everything he has to help his best friend (Edward Norton) pay off a gambling debt the only way they know how - playing a lot of poker.
"Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels"
The film that made names for both Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham, it focuses around four working Joes who lose big on a card game, and plan a big heist in order to pay off their debts.
"Casino Royale" (1967)
Unlike the dead-serious 2006 version, this trippy 1967 send-up of Ian Fleming's story of a British spy who fights a terrorist organization through a high-stakes game of baccarat is both supremely entertaining and nigh-incomprehensible. Huge ensemble cast includes Peter Sellers, Orson Welles and Woody Allen.
"Rain Man"
Tom Cruise plays a self-centered automobile dealer who is left with nearly no inheritance after his father's passing. He finds out that most of the fortune had been left to Raymond (Dustin Hoffman), the autistic, math-genius brother he never knew existed. Cruise's Charlie takes Raymond cross-country to Las Vegas, where he plans to use his brother's near-supernatural skill with numbers to make a fortune.
lifeliine@cm-life.com
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