The Grifters
(1990)
★ 6.5 IMDb · 496 votes
Year: 1990
Runtime: 110 мин
Country: Canada, United States of America
Director: Stephen Frears
Cast: Анжелика Хьюстон, Джон Кьюсак, Аннетт Бенинг, Ян Мунро, Robert Weems, Стивен Тоболовски, Jimmy Noonan, Richard Holden, Генри Джонс, Майкл Ласкин
Plot
A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.
Lilly works for a bookie, placing bets to change the odds at the track. When her son is hospitalized after an unsuccessful con job and resultant beating, she finds that even an absentee parent has feelings for her child. This causes her own job to go wrong as well. Each of them faces the downside of the grift.