Rating: NR
Genre:
Drama
Theatrical Release: 04/21/2000(USA)
Release Date: 03/09/2004
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 94 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Image Entertainment
A man finds his personal and professional loyalties divides by his new career at a casino in this
crime drama.
Jack Manfred (
Clive Owen) is a cocky, supremely confident man who wants to be a writer.
Jack's long struggle to finish his first novel has landed him deep in debt, and his father (
Nicholas Ball) volunteers to get him a job in a casino in London. While
Jack doesn't gamble himself, he has the dexterity (and enough contempt for the game) to be a good dealer. He's soon making a tidy living as a dealer, despite the objections of his girlfriend,
Marion (
Gina McKee), who thinks his job is taking him away from his true calling as a writer. Against the orders of his boss,
Jack has a fling with
Bella (
Kate Hardie), another dealer at the casino, and allows himself to be seduced by one of his customers,
Jani (
Alex Kingston). However, it turns out
Jani wants more than sex from
Jack; she and her compatriots have a plan to rob the casino and they want
Jack to be their man on the inside.
Croupier was directed by
Mike Hodges, whose first film was the classic British
thriller Get Carter.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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