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| The Music Of Chance (1993) |
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'The
Music of Chance' chronicles one man's search (Mandy Patinkin plays Jim Nash)
for himself, as he quits his job, loads his car and heads cross country. That
his path crosses that of Jack Pozzi (James Spader) a drifter, card-sharp, down
on his luck today, but eye's on the 'big score' ahead, is not exactly
unpredictable. What they encounter as a result is indeed surprising, as well as
strenuous.
The first scene in the movie Pozzi is staggering along the
highway, having been beaten bloody, when he is picked up by Nashe. Pozzi tells
Nashe he needs $10,000 to play a couple of "chump millionaires", Bill Flower
(Charles Durning) and Willie Stone (Joel Grey) whom he had met in a game in
Atlantic City, who have invited him to their mansion for a 3-handed game of 7
card stud.
Nashe, who has been roaming for a year on an inheritance, is
running low on money, and offers to go partners with Pozzi, putting up the 10
grand. The rest of the movie is the game and what happens to Nashe and Pozzi
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| This is a film that
defies categorization. It starts off seemingly as a film about high stakes
poker players and evolves into something decidedly and deliciously different.
James Spader plays something other than his usual blonde pretty boy types and
Mandy Patinkin shines. If you are fed up with movies with plots you can easily
second guess then 'The Music Of Chance' is for you. |
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I really found
myself struggling to draw any conclusions from what I saw.
The director
Haas must have forgot that the audience might not have read the novel which
apparently reveals the true message. If you want something odd try this. I give
it 7/10 but many will hate it and others will love the shear non Hollywoodness
of it. Unusual. |
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| Director |
Philip
Haas |
James
Spader |
Jack
Pozzi |
| Writing |
Paul
Auster |
Mandy
Patinkin |
Jim
Nashe |
| Cinematography |
Bernard
Zitzermann |
M.
Emmet Walsh |
Calvin
Murks |
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