Niezwykłe współzawodnictwo dwóch umysłów! W tym psychologicznym thrillerze, będącym debiutem reżyserskim nominowanego do Oscara Davida Mameta doskonałe kreacje stworzyli nominowana do Oscara Lindsay Crouse ("Informator") i Joe Mantegna ("Ojciec Chrzestny III"). Psychiatra Margaret Ford (Crouse) chcąc pomóc swemu pacjentowi - nałogowemu hazardziście, sama trafia do mrocznego świata nielegalnych gier. W obskurnym kasynie poznaje Mike'a (Mantegna), zawodowego oszusta, trzymającego jej pacjenta w garści. Wciągnięta do gry w pokera o wysoką stawkę, Margaret zaczyna przejawiać niezdrową fascynację Mikem i jego maestrią nie zważając na to, iż jest on szulerem, człowiekiem, któremu nie można ufać pod żadnym pozorem. Margaret odkrywa wkrótce, że gra swoją własną pokerową rozgrywkę, która toczy się między jej umysłem, a sercem... a konsekwencje są bardzo poważne.
David Mamet's 1987 directorial debut
House of Games is mesmerising study of control and seduction between two kinds of detached observers: a gambler who is also a con artist and a psychotherapist who is also an emerging pop-psych guru in the book market. The latter (played by Lindsay Crouse) meets the former (Joe Mantegna) when one of her clients is driven to despair from his debts to the card shark. Mantegna's character agrees to drop the IOUs in exchange for Crouse's attention at the seedy House of Games in Seattle, a mecca for conmen to talk shop and hustle unsuspecting customers.
The shrink gets so caught up in the arcane rules and world view of her guide over subsequent days that she observes--with no false rapture--various stings in progress inside and outside the club. Mamet's story finally becomes a fascinating study of two people protecting and extending their respective cosmologies the way rival predators fight for the same piece of turf. The psychological challenge is compelling; so is the stylised dialogue, with its pattern of pauses and hiccups and humming meter. Mostly shooting at night, Mamet also gave Seattle a different look from previous filmmakers, turning its familiar puddles into concentrations of liquid neon and poisonous noir. --Tom Keogh
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Its the shrink vs. the shark in the ultimate mind game! Starring Oscar nominee Lindsay Crouse (The Insider) and Joe Mantegna (Godfather III) as an unlikely team of con artists, this witty and devious psychological thriller is Oscar nominee David Mamets directorial debut. When a suicidal patient reveals that his gambling debt has him at the end of his rope, dedicated psychiatrist Margaret Ford (Crouse) enters into the shadowy underground world of gaming to help him out. At a seedy casino, she boldly confronts Mike (Mantegna), the con man who holds her patients markers. Duped into a high stakes poker match, Margaret becomes intoxicated by Mikes mastery as he both cheats at the game and charms her. She quickly falls for him, turning a blind eye to the fact that hes a swindler who cant be trusted. And before long she finds herself sparring in a mental poker match of the heart with deadly consequences.
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