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Release Date: 1999
Cast: Nick Reding, Clive Owen, David Hamilton, Simon Fisher Turner, Paul Reynolds, Gina McKee, Barnaby Kay, Alexander Morton, Eddie Osei, Kate Hardie, Nicholas Ball, Alex Kingston ...MORE
Cast: Nick Reding, Clive Owen, David Hamilton, Simon Fisher Turner, Paul Reynolds, Gina McKee, Barnaby Kay, Alexander Morton, Eddie Osei, Kate Hardie, Nicholas Ball, Alex Kingston, Rhona Mitra ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Film Noir, Crime Fiction, Indie, Drama Film, Crime Thriller, 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. He sleeps with Bella (Kate Hardie) another croupier. His relationship with LESS
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