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Plot:
Philip Seymour Hoffman adds another great performance to his gallery of losers in Owning Mahowny, an engrossing, fact-based comedy-drama about the perils of compulsive gambling. The subject is ...( read more 
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MCT:June 8, 2008Another brilliant PSH performance. I don't understand how he does it time and time again. He must be horribly boring and uninteresting in person.
This movie delves into the psyche of a gambling addict. And it is a very accurate depiction. Excellent movie. -
MCT:February 22, 2008
PSH is the master of playing a self-destructing desperately unhappy guy who is addicted to the sensation losing.
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MCT:August 26, 2007This movie is worth checking out. It had me on the edge of my seat from the very beginning. Based on a true story.
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MCT:July 31, 2007
True story related in lukewarm and fascinating narrative style . Main character played with perpiscacity.
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MCT:June 28, 2007
Feeling the stress of gambling. I could really feel his stress. Philip Seymour Hoffman really knows how to get into character.
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MCT:May 9, 2007
"Some people believe we all have a public life, a private life, and a secret life."
Based on true events, the secret life of Dan Mahowny was a doozy!!! The slippery slope of addiction is pretty damn clear when you look at a man, who didn't have a salary over $25,000 sitting at a card table with $9 million only to end up with nothing left several hours later. And, STILL not able to recognize that, yes, indeed, he had a gambling problem.
It's a good cast...and, though I think the situation is interesting enough, the telling of the story makes for a rather slow movie. You see the man's life unraveling and marvel at his ability to keep it all together. The character Minnie Driver plays is saintly in her support of the man she loves. Though, some might mistake saintly with a lack of sanity for sticking with him.
I liked the ending conversation...the therapist asking him to rate on a scale from 1-100 the thrill he got sitting at the table gambling. 100 he proclaims. And, the highest level he'd experienced with any other activity outside gambling. 20. And, how he felt about living the rest of his life at 20. 20's not bad, he says. He can live with 20.
I'm not much of a gambler, but, I bet it's pretty safe to say he still craves that 100 on occasion!! -
MCT:December 14, 2006blah. hoffman is good and you relly see the depths of gambling addiction, but the story just loops itself four times, and thats it. kinda boring to watch.
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MCT:November 7, 2006
Una muy buena pelicula que retrata los peligros del vicio de la apuesta. Tambien Rounders es excelente.
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MCT:August 30, 2006The acting is good, but the story is mediocre. Basically he steals money, gambles it away, and then that story loops a few times.
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MCT:August 8, 2006
Good story about a man's addiction to gambling. The big reason to see this movie is Hoffman's performance. He inhabit's his character and the movie is elevated because of it. That and it's great to see a bank actually getting ripped off for once. Watch and you'll see what I mean.
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MCT:June 12, 2006
I love this movie. It's about gambling, but not gambling to win, gambling for the sake of gambling. I am just like this. I would do the same thing if I got the chance.
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MCT:June 4, 2006Sloooooooooow. But I guess there isn't much exciting about watching a guy lose a lot of money.
Based on the true story of a Canadian!
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