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What Happens in Vegas (2008)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Diaz, Cameron | Kutcher, Ashton | Corddry, Rob | Bell, Lake | Sudeikis, Jason | Williams, Treat | O'Connell, Deirdre | Krusiec, Michelle | Farina, Dennis | Galifianakis, Zach | Latifah, Queen | Ritter, Krysten | Garcia, Ricky | Daly, Andrew | Robledo, Benita
Directors: Vaughan, Tom
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The clumsy and reckless Jack Fuller is fired by his boss and father and together with his friend and unsuccessful lawyer Hater, they decide to go to Las Vegas to have a good time. Meanwhile the fiancĂ© of the workaholic stock broker Joy McNally breaks up their engagement because of her lack of attitude. Her friend and bartender Tipper convinces Joy to spend a couple of days also in Las Vegas. Due to a hotel management mistake, they are lodged in the same room and later they hang around together. During the night, they get completely wasted and on the next morning, Jack and Joy find that they got married. While discussing to briefly end their wedding, Jack borrows a coin from Joy to gamble in the jackpot machine and wins three million dollars. They question in court the ownership of the money and the conservative Judge R. D. Whopper freezes the money and sentence them to live together with Joy moving to Jack’s house for six months and attending regular counseling sessions. Each one decides to make the life of the other hell on Earth to force to get out of the marriage.

Sydney aka Hard Eight (1996)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Hall, Philip Baker | Reilly, John C. | Jackson, Samuel L. | Parker, F. William | Hoffman, Philip Seymour | Cooper, Nathanael | Ridgely, Robert | Rowe, Michael J. | D'Allesandro, Peter | Blane, Steve | Breen, Andy | Pinizza, Mark | Gross, Richard | Keeley, Cliff | Robbins, Truman
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John has lost all his money. He sits outside a diner in the desert when Sydney happens along, buys him coffee, then takes him to Reno and shows him how to get a free room without losing much money. Under Sydney’s fatherly tutelage, John becomes a successful small-time professional gambler, and all is well, until he falls for Clementine, a cocktail waitress and sometimes hooker.

Casino (1995)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: France | USA
Actors: De Niro, Robert | Stone, Sharon | Pesci, Joe | Woods, James | Vincent, Frank | Cajano, Pasquale | Rickles, Don | Pollak, Kevin | Vella, Vinny | King, Alan | Jones, L. Q. | Smothers, Dick | Rigano, Joseph | Bloom, John | Prophet, Melissa
Directors: Scorsese, Martin
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This Martin Scorsese film depicts the Janus-like quality of Las Vegas—it has a glittering, glamorous face, as well as a brutal, cruel one. Ace Rothstein and Nicky Santoro, mobsters who move to Las Vegas to make their mark, live and work in this paradoxical world. Seen through their eyes, each as a foil to the other, the details of mob involvement in the casinos of the 1970’s and ’80’s are revealed. Ace is the smooth operator of the Tangiers casino, while Nicky is his boyhood friend and tough strongman, robbing and shaking down the locals. However, they each have a tragic flaw—Ace falls in love with a hustler, Ginger, and Nicky falls into an ever-deepening spiral of drugs and violence.