Three Card Monte (1978)
- Directed by
- Les Rose
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Canada
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Rating
- 9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A small-time con man takes in a runaway kid and tries to teach him the tricks of the trade while dodging trouble on the streets. The two form an unlikely bond as the man becomes a makeshift father figure to the boy.
grittylow-keyearnestunderstatedbleaknaturalisticaimlessstreetwise
What happens
Three Card Monte is a 1978 Canadian crime drama film directed by Les Rose and starring Richard Gabourie as Busher, a small-time con man who meets and becomes a father figure to a runaway kid named Toby (Chris Langevin). The film was written by Gabourie. It premiered at the 1978 Festival of Festivals. At the 29th Canadian Film Awards in 1978, the film garnered 11 nominations, including Best Feature Film, Best Director (Rose), Best Actor (Gabourie) and Best Supporting Actress (Lynne Cavanagh). Gabourie won the award for Best Actor, as well as the Wendy Michener Award in honour of his all-around achievement as a virtual unknown who successfully wrote, coproduced and starred in his own debut film. The film was dismissed by The Globe and Mail film critic Jay Scott as being "in the respected tradition of naturalistic, manic-depressive Canadian cinema", and as "less valuable for what it is than for what it indicates that the people involved with it might be able to do under other, more agreeable circumstances." Other critics were more charitable, with both Bruce Kirkland of the Toronto Star and Ian Haysom of the Ottawa Journal calling it a good but not perfect film. Rose and Gabourie subsequently collaborated on the 1979 film Title Shot, which was more poorly received than Three Card Monte. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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