Deal (2008)

Directed by

Gil Cates Jr.

Genre

drama film, comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 76 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A former poker player teaches a younger man the ropes so he can compete in a high stakes tournament. The student enters the World Poker Tour championship against experienced professionals.

datedformulaiclighthearteduninspiredconventionalcornymelodramatic

What happens

Deal is a 2008 American drama film starring Burt Reynolds, Bret Harrison and Shannon Elizabeth. It follows the former poker player tutoring a younger player (Harrison). The film's climax is a fictional World Poker Tour championship. World Poker Tour commentators, Mike Sexton, Vince Van Patten and Courtney Friel played themselves. A number of other professional poker players and poker-playing celebrities, including Elizabeth, Jennifer Tilly, Phil Laak, Antonio Esfandiari, Greg Raymer, Chris Moneymaker and Isabelle Mercier are in the cast. The film had its limited theatrical release by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on April 25, 2008 to universally negative reviews, with its strong criticism going towards its over-reliance on clichés from other sports films, as well as bad, unprofessional directing and editing for a major film studio, and bad acting from Reynolds. In addition, the film was a major box office bomb. In turn, it has been regarded as one of the worst films of all time, let alone within the sports film genre. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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