"Risk is the biggest rush."
Four college friends become small-time bookies, only to find their world spinning dangerously out of control when their greed attracts the attention of organized crime.
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The people behind it
Nick Stahl
Toby
Johnny Galecki
Jude
Lukas Haas
Casey
Rachael Leigh Cook
Hunter
David Proval
Larry
John Diehl
Vincent
Julio Oscar Mechoso
Martinez
Dwight Armstrong
Abraham
Steve Hudson
Julius Garrett
Zuri Williams
Duane
Blackjack isn’t a difficult game so everyone thinks they can play it. My father was a typical example. He thought luck would come his way but he lost everything instead. And I need that money. I want to be something he never was. I can’t think of anything else but humiliating him. He had fifteen years to change There’s no other way.
When a poker player hits rock bottom he enlists his best friend to pull off a high-stakes heist.
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A young, upstanding lumberjack heads to college, where he quickly becomes introduced to a world of hazing, pranks, and class camaraderie. Will his moral principles survive the transition?
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A crook quietly plots his revenge against the boss who murdered his brother while working for him.
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A student on a trip to France is tricked into smuggling secrets across the Iron Curtain by a sexy spy.
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Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result of Nick's risky tactics. But the rookie who's been assigned to help Nick bust a carjacking ring is almost as hotheaded as he is … and when Nick gets kidnapped, his newbie partner is his only hope.
The mobster husbands of three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but a sharp ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia's matters into their own hands — proving unexpectedly adept at everything from running the rackets to taking out the competition… literally.
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