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Original title: Il Cartaio
Release Date
• USA: Oct 6, 2004
• UK: 23 Apr 2004
DVD Release Date
• R1: Aug 23, 2005
Budget EUR 2,000,000
Running Time
1 hour, 36 minutes
Country Italy
Production Companies
Medusa Produzione, Opera Film Produzione
Studio Medusa, Opera Film
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• The Card Dealer
• Il Cartaio (2004)
• The Card Player
• The Cardplayer
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Detectives, Suspense, Murder, Serial Killer, Psychos
Plot: From master horror director Dario Argento comes THE CARD PLAYER (IL CARTAIO). Stefania Rocca plays Anna Mari, a police detective whose birthday is ruined by a bizarre email she receives. In the email is a challenge to play a game of poker over the internet...and if Det. Mari loses, an innocent woman will be murdered right there on screen. A demented serial killer begins to challenge the police with this game again and again, and Mari launches into an intense investigation to find the maniac. But meanwhile, the police must enlist the help of a teenage boy, who is also a poker genius, to hold off the killer. How long can THE CARD PLAYER be kept at bay before the police lose again and another woman is
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 I was expecting to be thrilled, to be stressed out of my wits, to have my blood pressure go up. Sadly, I experienced nothing of the sort.  -- (Bloody-Disgusting.com)
This is a film most Argento fans will enjoy but ultimately, it destroys the senses within its first thirty minutes or so and leaves you numb and unmoved by the seemingly mediocre fare that follows. 4/10--Alex Ballard (thefilmasylum.com)
What disturbed me most about the film, however, was that, with a little less gore, and the scene shifted to the UK, the movie could almost pass for an ITV Drama Premiere. Not a pleasant thought.  -- (terrorwatch.net)
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This is not Argento's best movie ever but I thought that it was kind of entertaining. The story is weak, predictable and filled with plot holes but that still doesn't make this a less entertaining movie, the ending takes care of that. Check it out if youhave nothing better to see but I didn't get any real pleasure out of watching this and I'm having it hard to find that anyone else will either.  --AnthroFred (SlasherPool)
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