Two For the Money
Year: | 2005 |
Studio: | Universal |
Director: | D J Caruso |
Cast: | Al Pacino, Matthew McConaughey, Rene Russo, Armand Assante, Jemery Piven, Jaime King |
McConaghuey is a former footballer with a gift for picking winners. He joins Pacino's sports betting business and proceeds to drive it to the top of its game by enriching some very happy clients.
But it's a morality take full of nuggets of wisdom about the lot of a gambler and the psychology of being addicted to the win (and loss).
They're delivered via a secondary character who wins and then loses everything, the guilt for which McConaghuey's character has to shoulder as he feels increasingly like he's selling his soul. Pacino is also given the stage, in a monologue on the nature of the film's topic that's almost a trademark of his.