Rounders
Trust everyone... But always cut the cards.
Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American gangster Teddy KGB.Promising his partner Jo he'll give up, he meets up with best friend Lester 'Worm' Murphy, just out of prison and owing lots of money to the wrong kind of people.
- Director
- John Dahl
- Worldwide
- $23M
Who's in it
Cast
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Story overview
What It's About
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Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American gangster Teddy KGB. Promising his partner Jo he'll give up, he meets up with best friend Lester 'Worm' Murphy, just out of prison and owing lots of money to the wrong kind of people. McDermott becomes his co-guarantor and now there's only one way to raise the money, the pair have to get back into the game.
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Box Office & Release
Rounders returned 1.9× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $12M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $23M
- Release date
- Sep 11, 1998
- Runtime
- 2h 1m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English, Hebrew
- Country
- United States of America
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