Lay the Favorite
(2012)
★ 5.2 IMDb · 256 votes
Year: 2012
Runtime: 90 мин
Country: France, United Kingdom
Director: Stephen Frears
Cast: Ребекка Холл, Брюс Уиллис, Кэтрин Зета-Джонс, Джошуа Джексон, Laura Prepon, Фрэнк Грилло, Уэйн Пер, Джон Кэрролл Линч, Винс Вон, Корбин Бернсен
Plot
A former stripper's talent with numbers lands her a job with a professional gambler who runs a sports book in Las Vegas.
Beth, who lap dances to make ends meet, leaves Florida for Las Vegas hoping to be a cocktail waitress. She meets two women who introduce her to Dink, a gambler with a system. He hires her - she's good with numbers - and she promptly falls for him, even though he's married to a woman who seems to do nothing but spend his money. Beth tries to entice Dink whose wife, Tulip, tells him to choose; he does and promptly goes on a losing streak. The repercussions of his choice play out with a heavy gambler who has a parole officer, a cheesy bookmaker in Curaçao, Beth's desire to keep a friend out of prison, and help from an unlikely source.