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Release Date: 1999 Cast: Kate Hardie, Simon Fisher Turner, Rhona Mitra, David Hamilton, Paul Reynolds, Alexander Morton, Gina McKee, Clive Owen, Barnaby Kay, Alex Kingston, Nicholas Ball, Eddie Osei ...MORE
Cast: Kate Hardie, Simon Fisher Turner, Rhona Mitra, David Hamilton, Paul Reynolds, Alexander Morton, Gina McKee, Clive Owen, Barnaby Kay, Alex Kingston, Nicholas Ball, Eddie Osei, Nick Reding ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Crime Fiction, Crime Thriller, Indie, Film noir, Crime Drama Croupier is a 1998 film starring Clive Owen as a croupier. Directed by Mike Hodges, the film was released by Image Entertainment on DVD in the USA, and Alliance Atlantis in Canada. Though intended as a feature film, it was shown on television in North America. It was also initially released in cinemas and drew a steady audience at the box office, attracting a strong critical following in North America, and helping to launch Clive Owen's acting career there.
Croupier was disqualified from the Academy Awards after it was shown on Dutch television.
The film has been classified as neo-noir. It... MORE
Croupier is a 1998 film starring Clive Owen as a croupier. Directed by Mike Hodges, the film was released by Image Entertainment on DVD in the USA, and Alliance Atlantis in Canada. Though intended as a feature film, it was shown on television in North America. It was also initially released in cinemas and drew a steady audience at the box office, attracting a strong critical following in North America, and helping to launch Clive Owen's acting career there.
Croupier was disqualified from the Academy Awards after it was shown on Dutch television.
The film has been classified as neo-noir. It uses interior monologues in the style of many early noir detective films.
Jack Manfred (Clive Owen) is an aspiring writer going nowhere fast. To make ends meet and against his better judgment, he takes a job as a croupier. The interview was set up by his father, a small-time hustler back home in South Africa.
Jack finds himself drawn into the casino world, and the job gradually takes over his life, as it apparently had in South Africa. He goes drinking with Matt (Paul Reynolds) a croupier whom he knows is cheating the casino. He sleeps with a fellow croupier named Bella (Kate Hardie) in LESS
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