Croupier.Croupier (The Shooting Gallery shooting gallery Substance abuse A place–eg, an abandoned building in an economically-depressed urban area–ie, a ghetto, where IV drug users congregate, purchase, inject–'shoot' heroin, cocaine, oxycodone or other drug. , 1998). Clive Owen has a knack for playing the sort of men audiences find so attractive--detached, charming, dangerous lads who look at home in a tux and a six o'clock shadow. In Mike Hodges' morality tale about a struggling writer working at a local casino casino or cassino (both: kəsē`nō). 1 Card game played with a full deck by two to four players. Its origins are obscure though it probably traces back to the Italian game of Scopa. , Jack Manfred (Owen) hopes a job running the roulette roulette (r  lĕt`), game of chance popular in gambling casinos, and in a simplified form elsewhere. In gambling houses the roulette wheel is set in an oblong table. table will pay the rent and provide material for his writing. But the rush of gambling spills over onto the croupier, and he finds himself drawn into the edgy, addicted ad·dict·edadj. 1. Physiologically or psychologically dependent on a habit-forming substance. 2. Compulsively or habitually involved in a practice or behavior, such as gambling. lives of his night-crawling clients, forcing him to choose between two very different lives. In the end Jack gets his "story" (and a chunk of change) but not without a price. * * * |
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