Rounders.Rounders round·er n. 1. One that rounds, especially a tool for rounding corners and edges. 2. One, such as a security guard, who makes rounds. 3. A dissolute person. 4. Sports a. (Miramax, 1998). The soundtrack for John Dahl's drama about a pair of not-so-recovering poker poker, card game, believed to have originated in Asia and first played in the United States in the 19th cent. A traditional cutthroat gambling game at first, it is now also an internationally popular social pastime. players should be Willie Nelson singing "Mamma, don't let your babies grow up to be gamblers." But it won't do any good because you know law student Mike McDermott (Matt Damon) won't be able to keep his promise to stay away from the tables once his buddy "Worm" Murphy (Edward Norton) gets in a jam with mob boss Teddy KGB KGB: see secret police. KGB Russian Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (“Committee for State Security”) Soviet agency responsible for intelligence, counterintelligence, and internal security. (John Malkovich John Gavin Malkovich (born December 91953) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, producer and director. Biography Early life Malkovich was born in Christopher, Illinois, of Croatian descent on his father's side and of Scottish and German ancestry on his ). Either McDermott wins back Worm's debts or Teddy collects a very bloody pound of flesh. Still, the more interesting question is whether McDermott's gambling is an addiction or a vocation. * * * |
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