The Cooler
When your life depends on losing... the last thing you need is lady luck.
Bernie works at a Las Vegas casino, where he uses his innate ability to bring about misfortune in those around him to jinx gamblers into losing.His imposing boss, Shelly Kaplow, is happy with the arrangement.But Bernie finds unexpected happiness when he begins dating attractive waitress Natalie Belisario.
- Director
- Wayne Kramer
- Worldwide
- $10M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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Bernie works at a Las Vegas casino, where he uses his innate ability to bring about misfortune in those around him to jinx gamblers into losing. His imposing boss, Shelly Kaplow, is happy with the arrangement. But Bernie finds unexpected happiness when he begins dating attractive waitress Natalie Belisario.
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Box Office & Release
The Cooler returned 2.6× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $4M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $10M
- Release date
- Nov 26, 2003
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States of America
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