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Deal (2008)
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Critic Consensus: Employing multiple cinematic clichés and milking stale performances, Deal proves inadequate for even the lowly regarded poker movie genre.
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Cast
as Alex Stillman
as Tommy Vinson
as Charlie Adler
as Michelle
as Karen 'Razor' Jones
as Himself
as Himself
as Helen Vinson
as Mr. Stillman
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Critic Reviews for Deal
All Critics (35) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (34) | DVD (1)
They've got to do something else with these poker movies.
Reynolds doesn't convey any of the lightning bolt insouciance that made him arguably the greatest movie star of the '70s and '80s (really) but rather just stands there.
Success isn't in the cards for this plodding poker drama.
Deal could use a touch of the slickness that's making the blackjack drama 21 such a greasy hit.
About now is when a critic would throw in a reference to a low poker hand to compare it to, but Deal can't even rise to a pair of twos.
A product of the recent poker craze, this can't compare with the movie that helped launch it, John Dahl's tense Rounders.
Audience Reviews for Deal
Another card shark movie...where the aging teacher eventually takes the student to school...in more ways than just cards...it is good whether you like the card game of poker or not...see this it is a good watch!
Super Reviewer
Deal centers around a aging poker player played really good by a ageing Burt Reynolds who never fullfilled his dream of winning the big one and the young kid just out of college he takes under his wing showing him the ins and outs of the poker world that is untill student and teacher go up against each other in a winner take all world series of poker. really good movie worth checking out for those that enjoyed Rounders
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