Rounders
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Rounders

Trust everyone... But always cut the cards.

7.0 / 10 1998 2h 1mR English
DramaCrime

Storyline

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.

Cast & Crew

Matt Damon

Matt Damon

Mike McDermott

Lead
Edward Norton

Edward Norton

Lester 'Worm' Murphy

John Turturro

John Turturro

Joey Knish

Gretchen Mol

Gretchen Mol

Jo

John Malkovich

John Malkovich

Teddy KGB

Famke Janssen

Famke Janssen

Petra

Martin Landau

Martin Landau

Abe Petrovsky

Michael Rispoli

Michael Rispoli

Grama

What People Are Saying

4.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. John Dahl's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
4.0
Every frame feels alive. Rounders is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker