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Genres:
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Crime /
Thriller /
Drama
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Release:
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Director:
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Richard Kwietniowski
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Actors:
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Minnie Driver,
Ian Tracey,
K.C. Collins,
Eric Fink,
Mike 'Nug' Nahrgang,
Tanya Henley,
Brona Brown,
Philip Seymour Hoffman,
John Hurt,
Maury Chaykin,
Sonja Smits,
Jason Blicker,
Vince Corazza,
Roger Dunn,
Philip Craig
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Duration:
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101 min.
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Rating:
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(7/10)69.5
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Plot Summary:
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Dan Mahowny (Hoffman) is a constrained who has a knack destined for numbers. He works at a bank and has a gambling addiction. In 1982, Mahowny starts placing bets and siphons $10.2 million dollars from his bank to cover them. With myriad funds at his disposal, Mahowny bets pretentiously and wins - allowing for regarding a while. When he's caught, it turns short to be the biggest one man bank fraud in Canadian past.
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A bit boring
I like Hoffman but he acted the part of a boring bank clerk a bit too well in this. Why on earth Minnie Driver keeps getting cast as an Amercian (Canadian, whatever) just escapes me. She was painful to watch, as usual.
Owning Mahowny
Richard Kwietniowski's Owning Mahowny is not a perfect film but is a perfect fit for Philip Seymour Hoffman. He plays a seemingly ordinary young Toronto banker with a head for numbers good enough to impress his superiors into promoting him to assistant manager at a vast old marble institution in the city's financial district. What they don't know is that he is a compulsive gambler.
Hoffman's Mahowny is amazing in his daring and ability to cover his tracks, even on the spur of the moment. He's soon spending weekends at an Atlantic City casino whose manager (John Hurt), a man of stylishly gruff false bonhomie, sizes him up as a high-stakes risk-taker worth his personal attention. Lavish accommodations, hookers, fine wines mean nothing to Mahowny, who's happy to fuel hi...
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