On The Subject: Is Rounders Cinema?

The episode we shuffle up and deal you the movie Rouders. We are talking poker baby! Is Rounders cinema or just a movie grind. We discuss what works and hits on the river and the parts that don’t add up in the flop.

Rounders

A young, reformed gambler must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks, while balancing his relationship with his girlfriend and his commitments to law school.

Director: John Dahl

Writers: David Levien, Brian Koppelman

Stars: Matt Damon, Edward Norton, Gretchen Mol | See full cast & crew »

BOX OFFICE Released September 11th 1998

Budget: $12 Million

Cumulative:  $22.9 Million

Opening Weekend: $8.4 Million

Opened  1

  • #2 There’s Something about Mary

    • 1st previous week

  • #3 Blade

  • #4  Saving Private Ryan

    • 2nd previous week

  • #5 Simon Birch

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