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Rounders

Matt Damon, Edward Norton, and John Turturro star in Rounders. In Rounders Mike McDermott (Matt Damon) plays a texas hold'em player/law student who makes his money by grinding it out at small clubs. That is until he loses his entire stake of $30,000 to Russian mobster Teddy KGB (John Malkovich). He gives it up for awhile only to return at the repeated requests of his buddy Worm (Norton) who has just recently been released from prison.

Rounders is an interesting character study about the turns your life can take depending on the choices you make. Not only about who you surround yourself with and take advice from but also if you are willing to listen to yourself.

I've seen this movie dozens of times. In that respect it is a little like Texas hold'em - addicting. Enjoy but be careful, because before you know it you're all in...

Memorable Quotes

Mike McDermott: Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.

Mike McDermott: You were lookin' for that third three, but you forgot that Professor Green folded on Fourth Street and now you're representing that you have it. The DA made his two pair, but he knows they're no good. Judge Kaplan was trying to squeeze out a diamond flush but he came up short and Mr. Eisen is futilely hoping that his queens are going to stand up. So like I said, the Dean's bet is $20.

Victory

John Huston directs this 1981 film about a soccer match between Allied prisoners and the Germans. Michael Caine, a former British soccer star leads the Allied squad in this improbable yet highly entertaining match.

Victory features an all-star cast of both actors and athletes with the likes of Caine, Max Von Sydow, Sylvester Stallone (as the goalie), and even Pele.

The game symbolizes freedom for the allies. It is their emotional outlet and it is one they pour themselves into both during practice and when the game itself begins. There comes a time though when they are forced to make a choice to give up the game for a seemingly easy out. Do they take the easy out or do they play for victory? Watch Victory to find out.

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1. Oh, this your wife, huh? A lovely lady. Hey baby, you must've been something before electricity.

2. If you put your effort and concentration into playing to your potential, to be the best that you can be, I don't care what the scoreboard says at the end of the game, in my book we're gonna be winners.

3. Ya'll playing like a bunch of little girls!

4. This is no democracy. It is a dictatorship. I am the law.

5. If you build it he will come.

6. Shut up. Just shut up. You had me at "hello."

7. Son, in 35 years of religious study, I have only come up with two hard incontrovertible facts: there is a God, and I'm not Him.

8. You've lost, you just don't know it yet.













1. Al Czervik from Caddyshack.
2. Norman Dale from Hoosiers.
3. Ivory Christian from Friday Night Lights.
4. Coach Boone from Remember the Titans.
5. From Field of Dreams.
6. Dorothy in Jerry Maguire.
7. Father Cavanaugh in Rudy.
8. Chess child prodigy Josh in Searching For Bobby Fischer.