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Rating: 5.5 stars

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Las Vegas gambling new york city bookie

All movies seen on 04/12/2022

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Lay the Favorite (2012)

Directed by Stephen Frears

Drama | Comedy

Overview

A former stripper’s talent with numbers lands her a job with a professional gambler who runs a sports book in Las Vegas.

Rated R | Length 94 minutes

Actors

Rebecca Hall | Bruce Willis | Catherine Zeta-Jones | Joshua Jackson | Laura Prepon | Frank Grillo | Wayne Pére | John Carroll Lynch | Vince Vaughn | Corbin Bernsen | Wendell Pierce | Joel Murray | Hugo Armstrong | Earl Maddox | Rio Hackford | Jo Newman | Adam Kozlowski | Al Brown | Thom Sesma | Rusty Meyers | John J. Mourain | Ritchie Montgomery | René J.F. Piazza | Adruitha Lee | Tracy Miller | Matthew Pebler | Jerome Katz | Ambyr Childers | Rob Steinberg | Lara Grice | William Sabourin | Alexey Marti | Lázaro R. Gutiérrez | Dominique DuVernay | Darcel White Moreno | Deven May | John Salvatore | Andrea Frankle | Yolanda Windsay | Robert Hoerner

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

My memory is getting worse. Second movie in as many nights that I had logged here but had zero recollection of viewing. For this entire movie everything was new to me then I checked IMDb at some point to look up the year and saw that I had rated it! Went to ML and looked it up and yep, I logged it and wrote some decent notes. But seriously not one thing in this movie felt familiar or rang a bell. So fucking weird.

Anyways I guess my opinion hasn’t changed bc this is just okay. The story is kinda the hooker with the heart of gold meets the bookie with a heart of gold (not exactly but I’m fine being reductive here). Very basic and silly and no stakes. But I was wrong about Willis. He’s not phoning it in; rather he’s having a good time with a quirky character. The only reason to watch this is for the cast and Rebecca Hall’s spot on American accent. I wouldn’t have noticed him then but Frank Grillo has a neat supporting role. CZJ is fun, too. It’s a nice and apparently forgettable movie.

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