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To his friends and coworkers in Toronto, Dan Mahowny (Philip Seymour
Hoffman) is just a normal guy. He works in a bank, where he’s recently been promoted to
the branch’s assistant manager. He’s drives an old car, and he lives in an apartment
with his girlfriend, Belinda (an almost unrecognizable Minnie Driver). He’s a
mild-mannered guy who wears big glasses and tacky suits.
Dan Mahowny is
also a compulsive gambler whose extreme and unlikely bets ($1,000 on each game—all the
home teams in the National League, and all the away teams in the American League) get him
into serious financial trouble. With nowhere else to turn, Dan starts creating phantom
loans at the bank and borrowing off other customers’ huge lines of credit. And each
weekend, he flies to Atlantic City to try to make it all back and pay off his
debt.
To the people in the casino in Atlantic City, Dan Mahowny is a
mysterious high roller. He shows up, cashes in tens of thousands of dollars, and
completely ignores the comps he’s given—the expensive suites, the tickets to shows, the
free meals. Dan’s just there to gamble—to get the money back before it catches up to
him.
Based on a true story, Owning Mahowny is a suspenseful film
that will keep you on your toes. It’s never a question of if he’ll get caught.
You know he does—you see it in the first scene. The question is when (and
how) he’ll get caught. Each time you think it’s all over—that there’s no possible
way he’ll pull it off—Dan gets lucky. Despite a few cheesy Canadian stereotypes thrown
in (like Dan listening to the hockey game in his car while eating a donut), Owning
Mahowny is a great film. Hoffman plays the part extremely well—and the story is
especially fascinating (and perplexing) because it’s true. This one’s definitely worth
watching.
Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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