Rounders

1998 · TMDB 7.0

Directed by John Dahl

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.

Matt Damon Edward Norton John Turturro Gretchen Mol John Malkovich Famke Janssen Martin Landau Michael Rispoli Goran Višnjić Mal Z. Lawrence Paul Cicero Ray Iannicelli

Director · John Dahl Producer · Ted Demme Producer · Joel Stillerman Writer · Brian Koppelman Writer · David Levien Cinematography · Jean-Yves Escoffier Composer · Christopher Young Editor · Scott Chestnut

Runtime: 121 min
Released: 1998-09-11
Studio: Miramax
Country: United States of America
Language: Russian
TMDB score: 7.0

Crime Drama

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Tim Laws

2025-09-08

John Dahl's best film. Why doesn't this man make more films?! Miramax in the 90s were amazing...at film making. Terrible at other stuff, obviously.