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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Mike Hodges |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 21 April, 2000 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Image Entertainment |
| MPAA RATING: | Unrated |
| FEATURES: | Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Adult Situations, Cerebral, Chilly, Color, Cons and Scams, Creative Block, Crime, Crime Drama, Deliberate, Drama, English, Feature, Femmes Fatales, Gambling, Germany, High Production Values, Matter-of-Fact, Meditative, Movie, Mystery |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| MPN: | D0596D |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 014381059625 |
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Customer Reviews of Croupier
Get the DVD version with Mike Hodges' director's commentary Nine years after its production, 'Croupier' is now remembered as the vehicle which shot Clive Owen into movie stardom...and rightfully so. He's mesmerizing here in Mike Hodges' taut adaptation of Paul Mayersberg's beguiling script. Mayersberg received an Edgar Allan Poe nomination for Best Screenplay. [NOTE: Amazon's sister site IMDB - in a delightfully goofy phonetic slip-up - notes that the Poe Awards "honor the achievements of writers in the field of mystery at all."] <
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>Mayersberg's tale features layers of intricacies, secret deals, snitches, stories within stories, all presented to you by a narrator (Owen's Jack Manfred) who may or may not be leveling with you. Like countless others, I scrambled online to see if the IMDB chatboards would lead to a bit of resolution. The prevailing opinion there is that Mayersberg and Hodges have deliberately left some things subject to interpretation. Apparently, this conclusion is reinforced by the Director's commentary. One reviewer noted that re-watching Croupier with Hodges' commentary was "like watching an entirely different film." Unfortunately, we had a DVD without that track. My recommendation is to make sure you rent/buy the version of the product that comes with that DVD extra.
Solid British Thriller
Croupier's protagonist (Clive Owen, in a very interesting performance in his pre-fame days) is a taciturn, unsuccessful writer living in London, who at the instigation of his father accepts a job as a croupier in a casino. He takes the job in order to write a novel about it, in which he can watch this particular milieu from above, in a detached and superior position. In the casino he meets a number of people, including the troubled Bella (Kate Hardie, in my view, the movie's most compelling character). Other character, the gambler Jani (Alex Kingston) will eventually involve him in a plot to rob the place. This movie let us know more details about the gambling business that we may be interested to know, and the final twist doesn't really hold water, making the movie end in a somewhat disappointing note, but all in all this is a solid, unusual thriller.
The roll of dice
Incredible film. It's about a man who knows how seductive the spin of the roulette wheel can be, and tries his best not to be seduced by the throw of dice. And then comes the ending, and you realise that either way he loses out. Brilliant stuff.