A high-profile cast can't save this multi-narrative drama about gambling addiction from its wildly uneven tone, which veers from high melodrama to hard-boiled pastiche so overwrought that it's unintentionally funny.
In an unnamed city where the rain never stops, a cross-section of desperate, unhappy people try to solve their problems by gambling. Restless novelist Carolyn Carver (Kim Basinger) tried to work off her writer's block at the slot machines, and instead lost her family's entire savings, including her daughter's college fund; she's desperately trying to win it back before her devoted husband Tom (Ray Liotta), a college professor, finds out. She for...
Released:
2007
Rated:
R
Length:
108 mins