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The Winner (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1996 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Alex Cox

Written By:
Alex Cox
Wendy Riss

Actors:
Rebecca De Mornay ..... Louise (as Rebecca DeMornay)
Vincent D'Onofrio ..... Philip
Richard Edson ..... Frankie
Saverio Guerra ..... Paulie
Delroy Lindo ..... Kingman
Michael Madsen ..... Wolf
Billy Bob Thornton ..... Jack
Frank Whaley ..... Joey
Luis Contreras ..... Guy in Couple
Ed Pansullo ..... Man with Broken Arm
Sy Richardson ..... Bartender
Craig Vincent ..... Man
Biff Yeager ..... Philip's Father
Del Zamora ..... Cellmate
Roger Jennings ..... Croupier

Synopsis:

Vincent D'Onofrio stars as Philip, a soft-spoken, rather dimwitted young man who stumbles into an incredible lucky streak in Las Vegas. Every Sunday, he enters the same casino, wins some money, and goes home. While Philip himself is pretty nonchalant about his lucky streak, it earns him the attention of a lot of unsavory characters. Louise (Rebecca De Mornay, who also executive produced the film), a tacky nightclub singer, and her impotent hitman boyfriend, Jack (Billy Bob Thornton), plan to get Philip to fall in love with Louise and offer her a fortune to pay off her debt to the sinister, seemingly omnipotent Kingman (Delroy Lindo), the casino owner who employs Jack. A small-time hood, Joey (Frank Whaley) and his motley crew (Richard Edson and Saverio Guerra) plan to rip Philip off, but their plans are complicated when the antic, impulsively violent Joey begins to feel a strange attraction to his would-be prey. Wolf (Michael Madsen), Philip's thuggish brother (and Louise's former lover) arrives in town, practically guaranteeing some kind of violent showdown. After shooting the film, Cox returned to Mexico to work on his next project. While he was away, the producers then re-edited The Winner without his consent, and replaced the film's soundtrack. Cox has since distanced himself from the final product.

A story about a man who can't seem to do anything but win at the tables in Vegas. This, of course, brings hustlers out of the woodwork intent on using him for financial gain. One of them is the man's brother who, incidentally, is trying to find who it was that killed their father, while still another is a woman who has schemes of her own. Couple all of this with drug kingpins and general thugs and you have a comedy with a fresh twist on surviving in Vegas.

When it is discovered that a man is having luck in the casinos in Las Vegas, people start attempting to take his money.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 18 June, 2010.

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