Xixax Film Forum
Film Discussion => In Front of the Camera => Topic started by: Jeremy Blackman on January 26, 2003, 02:28:06 PM
From one of Ebert's Sundance reports (http://www.suntimes.com/output/eb-feature/cst-nws-ebert26.html):
One of the great performances this year is by Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Owning Mahowny." He plays a Toronto bank clerk, engaged to a teller played by Minnie Driver; in his secret life he is a compulsive gambler. We watch in horrified fascination as a $1,300 debt grows to $10.2 million, as he steals money from the bank to try to gamble his way out of debt. John Hurt plays the professional but quirky Atlantic City casino manager who watches, fascinated, as this strange, nebbishy man arrives with larger and larger piles of cash; there is a sequence involving a winning streak that's among the most gripping gambling scenes ever filmed.