Other Titles • Four Dogs Playing Poker • 4 Dogs Playing Poker (2000)
Synopses for Four Dogs Playing Poker (2000)
1.
It's not a question of who will turn on each other so much as when in this trust-game thriller. Four friends who fancy themselves art thieves suddenly owe a million dollars to a powerful thug (Forest Whitaker). The solution they come up with is morbidly ingenious: one will die to save the others. But that's never the sort of pact you can expect people to follow through on, and therein lies the suspense. While it isn't Hitchcock (or even Tarantino), it isn't half-bad and it maintains a compelling pace. With the exception of a cartoonishly written druggie character, the plot holds together fairly well, and the four young leads (including Olivia Williams from Rushmore) are suitably dodgy. Veterans like Tim Curry and Whitaker drop by to help out, and just to make sure you know it's an art-house movie Four Dogs Playing Poker carries the hallmark of all movies with edgy aspirations: onscreen vomiting. Don't think too hard or you'll figure it out early. But if you sit back and relax, you'll have a good time. --Ali Davis
(15 votes)
2.
Four friends get in over their heads when they try to make a bigtime heist. They pull off the job, stealing a small, but priceless sculpture. Immediately, the sculpture is missing and the novice group of thieves find themselves burdened with a debt to a crime lord that they cannot pay. Their desperate attempt to save at least some of their lives is to have each member of the crew take out a $1 million life insurance policy. Each then draws a playing card that will designate whose life is to be spared in order to pay the crime boss and allow the others to live.
(15 votes)
3.
A film festival favorite, 4 Dogs Playing Poker is a captivating story of four friends who, after participating in a heist gone awry, are forced to devise a desperate payback plan by taking out one million dollar life insurance policies and drawing cards to see who lives…and who dies.
An explosive thriller in the style of Reservoir Dogs and The Usual Suspects, 4 Dogs Playing Poker stars Olivia Williams (The Sixth Sense, Rushmore), Stacy Edwards (Driven, The Next Best Thing), Balthazar Getty (Natural Born Killers), Daniel London (Patch Adams), Tim Curry (Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, The Rocky Horror Picture Show), Forest Whitaker (Phenomenon, Species) and is directed by Paul Rachman (Drive Baby Drive).
(15 votes)
Mooviees.com is not the official site for this film.
All editorial views and opinions expressed here are for entertainment purposes only.
Movie Database
In Theaters
