Clive Owen is a writer who's dad (Nicholas Ball) gets him a job in a London casino as a croupier. It seems he's had his own past on the other side of the table, but now he's determined to play it straight and not gamble. The plot thickens when he meets elusive South African Alex Kingston and former prostitute Kate Hardie.
It's a complex screenplay by Paul Mayersberg, quite noiry. The croupier loses his GF Gina McKee, but is clearly not in love with her anyway, and writes a bestseller, but how does his Dad make any money out of the situation which he has engineered in the first place?
With Alexander Morton, Paul Reynolds. It needs someone with a lot of presence to carry off this monocular approach - which obviously Owen has in spades.
Good, interesting score by Simon Fisher-Turner (who plays 'ironic punter'), shot very smoothly by Michael Garfath. An interesting film.
Don't think Owen (originally a stage actor) has been on the stage since 2019's 'Night of the Iguana'.
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