House of Games

(1987)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 367 votes

Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama

Year: 1987

Runtime: 101 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Дэвид Мэмет

Cast: Lindsay Crouse, Джо Мантенья, Mike Nussbaum, Lilia Skala, Дж.Т. Уолш, Steven Goldstein, Jack Wallace, Рики Джей, Уильям Мэйси, Meshach Taylor

Plot

A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.

A famous psychologist, Margaret Ford, decides to try to help one of her patients get out of a gambling debt. She visits the bar where Mike, to whom the debt is owed, runs poker games. He convinces her to help him in a game: her assignment is to look for "tells", or give-away body language. What seems easy to her becomes much more complex.