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Release Date
• USA: May 2, 2003
• UK: 6 Jun 2003
DVD Release Date
• R1: Oct 14, 2003
• R2: 23 Feb 2004
Budget $10,000,000
Official Website:
Owning Mahowny Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for language and some sexuality.
Running Time
1 hour, 44 minutes
Country Canada, USA, UK
Studio Alliance Atlantis Motion Pictures, Andras Hamori, H2O Motion Pictures, Natural Nylon
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Other Titles
• La Double vie de Mahowny
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Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama, True Story, Psychodrama, Suspense, Scams And Cons
Tagline: To some it's a game. To others it's a habit. But to Brian Mahowny -- beating the odds is everything
Plot: Polite, mild-mannered Dan Mahowny is an assistant bank manager with a head for numbers, a knack for making decisions, and a devastating appetite for gambling. Dan Mahowny is the unlikely hero who takes on two of the financial institutions everyone loves to hate, the bank and the casino, and, for a brief while, he wins. The most remarkable thing about this phenomenal story of $10.2 million of siphoned bank funds, staggering levels of embezzlement, and millions upon millions of dollars funnelled through the gambling networks, is that its central character is unphenomenal. He doesn’t gamble for material wealth. He isn’t interested in the glamorous perks casinos offer big spenders. It never occurs to him to save any of his winnings. He lives for the thrill of the bet. And that thrill drives him to incredible lengths of ingenuity and stamina. He is, in the purest sense imaginable, an addict. The backdrop of the story is 1982, deemed by economists as the beginning of the excessively profitable Reagan bull market. Banking confidence is high and scrutiny is low. This tidily overlaps with the world of casinos which are a stock exchange for the libido. It is a limitless world based on win or lose, where the win always seems within reach, yet stretches to infinity. By day, Mahowny
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Good Will Hunting, South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut, GoldenEye |
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Alien, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Hellboy |
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Creep, Love and Death on Long Island, XX/XY |
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