Zak Penn's mockumentary about professional poker was largely improvised by its stellar cast, and if it never achieves the razor's-edge balance of broad laughs and barbed insights into human frailty of, say, A MIGHTY WIND (2003), it delivers plenty of sharply funny moments.
The best poker players in American are gathering in Las Vegas for the Grand Championship of Poker, all hoping to walk away with the $10,000,000 pot. Two underlying dramas play themselves out around the ever-shrinking tables. Fresh off two years in rehab, compulsive, cross-addicted "One Eyed Jack" Faro (Woody Harrelson), who inherited the venerable Rabbit's Foot casino from his grandfather,...
Released:
2008
Rated:
R
Length:
104 mins