Synopsis
Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American gangster Teddy KGB. Promising his partner Jo he'll give up, he meets up with best friend Lester 'Worm' Murphy, just out of prison and owing lots of money to the wrong kind of people. McDermott becomes his co-guarantor and now there's only one way to raise the money, the pair have to get back into the game.
Cast
Matt Damon
Mike McDermott
Edward Norton
Lester 'Worm' Murphy
John Turturro
Joey Knish
Gretchen Mol
Jo
John Malkovich
Teddy KGB
Famke Janssen
Petra
Martin Landau
Abe Petrovsky
Michael Rispoli
Grama
Goran Višnjić
Maurice
Mal Z. Lawrence
Irving
Paul Cicero
Russian Thug
Ray Iannicelli
Kenny
Merwin Goldsmith
Sy
Sonny Zito
Tony
Josh Mostel
Zagosh
Lenny Clarke
Savino
Peter Yoshida
Henry Lin
Jay Boryea
Russian Thug #2
Lenny Venito
Moogie
Richard Mawe
Professor Eisen
Michael Lombardi
D.A. Shields
Tom Aldredge
Judge Marinacci
Beeson Carroll
Judge Kaplan
E. Matthew Yavne
Professor Green
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