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Rounders (1998)
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Widescreen 2.35:1 Color / Production Year: 1998 / Region 1
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• DVD-Video:
Rounders: Collector's Series Edition
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$8.99
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Overall Rating:  3.75 out of 5, including 12 reviews
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In The Game Of Life…Play The Cards You're Dealt.
Academy Award winner Matt Damon ( Good Will Hunting, The Rainmaker) and Edward Norton (The People vs. Larry Flint, Primal Fear) lead a critically acclaimed cast in this story of passion, risk and the extreme price of friendship! Dealt a painful lesson when he blows his hard-earned savings in a high-stakes, underground card club, master poker player Mike (Damon) thinks he's played his final hand when he gives up gambling for law school and a fresh start with his beautiful girlfriend (Gretchen Mol-The Last Time I Committed Suicide).But then, his best buddy (Norton) gets out of prison and in over his head with a ruthless Russian card shark (John Malkovich-In The Line Of Fire, Con Air). From there, Mike's strong sense of loyalty and the irresistible lure of the game draw strong sense of loyalty and the irresistible lure of the game draw him back to the tables in a do-or-die bid to rescue his friend! In this riveting motion picture also featuring John Turturro(The truce, The Big Lebowski) and Martin Landau (Ed Wood, Mike ultimately finds himself forced to wager his very future in a game he cannot afford to lose!
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| | Widescreen 2.35:1 Color | | Audio: (more info) | ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1
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| Studio: Miramax
Production Year: 1998
Release Date: 2/9/1999
Length: 121 mins
Rating: R
Chapters: 28
| Packaging: Keep Case
Number of Discs: 1
Disc: SS-SL
Item Code: 16449
UPC Code: 717951001535
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Overall Rating: 3.75 out of 5, including 12 reviews
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Empire Review
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Rounders - 4.25 out of 5 (2/26/1999)
The Movie:
After losing it all in high stakes poker, Mike had decided to get out of the game forever. He went to work as a delivery man and continued his studies in a New York City law school. But when his best friend is released from jail his life starts to take a turn for the worse. When his friend finds trouble with the Russian Mob over past due gambling debts, Mike must return to the table for the game of his life. Rounders is an excellent movie which deals with the und
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Customer Review
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masterpiece - 4.5 out of 5 (2/17/2003)
This film is a great, everytime I watch this movie it makes me want to play cards. Matt Damon is brilliant in this piece.
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Customer Review
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A can't lose hand with Rounders - 3.25 out of 5 (1/17/2001)
Rounders is one of those movies; you know the ones. You can't really pinpoint what it is that makes it such a likeable film, but you watch it over, and over. So is it the cast? The acting? Perhaps the story? Well, to say that it was any one of these elements would really be selling the film short. I think John Dahl did a spectacular job in directing this film. The acting, well, just look at this cast. Matt Damon, Edward Norton, John Turturro, the amazing John Malkovich, and a small, but grea
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If you can't spot the features, it's ok.... - 4 out of 5 (7/7/1999)
THEY'RE NOT THERE! Why does disney insist on charging high prices for plain jane discs!? ARGH! It is so frustrating to have a great movie come out on dvd but be expensive and at the same time have NO extras that you had hoped for.
Rounders is a great movie centering around the world of poker. Sounds like a yawner right? Luckily it is far from that and is executed with such skill that it keeps you interested the entire way and then some. Some of the credit has to go to the standout per
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