Rounders
- Release Date
- September 11, 1998
- Director
- John Dahl
- Cast
- Matt Damon , Edward Norton , Paul Cicero , John Turturro , Ray Iannicelli , Gretchen Mol
- Runtime
- 121
- Main Genre
- Crime
- Writers
- David Levien , Brian Koppelman
- Tagline
- Trust everyone... But always cut the cards.
Summary
A law school student (Matt Damon) loses his tuition money and everything else he has saved in a high stakes poker game. Learning his lesson (he thinks), he vows to his girl friend (Mol Gretchen) to give up playing forever. That lasts until his best friend (Edward Norton), a notorious card shark, is released from prison and drags him back into the circuit to pay debts he has incurred to a Russian mobster (John Malkovich). John Turturro also appears as a career poker player and Martin Landau plays a law professor who understands his student's need to be something other than what is dictated to him.
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