This scrimping, barren, almost desolate independent film generates above-average interest and disappointment as the sophomore feature film of Richard Kwietniowski, following Love and Death on Long Island. John Hurt, so good as the ivory-tower homosexual in that film, tends rather to expose too much as a cutthroat Atlantic City casino manager, yet he hardly out-exposes Philip Seymour Hoffman as his favorite sucker, melting down like a birthday candle before our very eyes. (Admittedly, it's hard to overplay the agony of a one-point North Carolina basketball victory when you're giving one and a half points.) The true story of a Toronto loan officer who in the early Eighties embezzled over ten million to feed his gambling habit (oops, sorry, gaming habit, we are now asked to call it) generates its own interest, however, even if that interest confines itself only to what happened and not why. Minnie Driver, Maury Chaykin. (2003) — Duncan Shepherd
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