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Director: Mark Rydell
Starring: Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, Kelsey Grammer, Nick Cannon, Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker, Grant Sullivan, Jay Mohr, Tim Roth
This dark, maudlin drama is a star-studded monument to pain and destruction wrought by gambling addiction. It is frustrating and depressing to watch, but does feature strong performances by a very experienced cast, and an engrossing, but slow, story that appears to be pointless, but does eventually find one and shares it with us in a fitting finish.
Even Money focuses on three people whose lives are torn apart by a gambling addiction and on three bookies whose livelihood depends on addictions just like theirs. Watching it all is a cop (Kelsey Grammer) investigating a murder and the innocent, damaged families being affected by the dangerous obsessions of those they love.
Not a bad movie, with some fine acting, but damn, why do I want to see this? Hollywood loves to make these relentlessly dreary movies about addictions, whether it be drugs, alcohol or, as in this case, gambling. You may like some of the characters, but you won’t enjoy their stories and I can only really recommend the end result if you thought films like Requiem For A Dream and Less Than Zero were worthwhile uses of your free time.
