Description: LINDSAY CROUSE JOE MANTEGNA J.T. WALSH MIKE NUSSBAUM AND LILIA SKALA star in David Mamet's HOUSE OF GAMES DVD - Region 4 - PAL - NEW and SEALED - Never played!! - M-rated - Colour - 1987-release - 98-minutes - Crime, Thriller - Original DVD release in Australia A famous psychologist, Margaret Ford, decides to try to help one of her patients get out of a gambling debt. She visits the bar where Mike, to whom the debt is owed, runs poker games. He convinces her to help him in a game: her assignment is to look for "tells", or give-away body language. What seems easy to her becomes much more complex. I knew nothing about this movie when I saw it on tv many years ago and had never seen 'The Sting' before seeing this. It's best to enjoy these type of movies without any prior knowledge, because if you knew anything about it before hand, you could work out the plot after 10 minutes. A movie that seems a straight forward thriller, but actually deals more with the desire to explore one's darker side. Mamet maybe made some of the plot twists seem a tad to obvious and doesn't quite manage to shake of a 'tv' approach, but that doesn't matter because Joe Mantegna gives a superb performance that lifts the other cast members above tv standard.One of David Mamet's better movie efforts (like Untouchables, Spanish Prisoner and Glengarry Glen Ross), it's best knowing nothing about this movie before seeing it.8/10.
Price: 12.95 AUD
Location: Kingsgrove, New South Wales
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Restocking fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
Returns Accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
DVD Edition Year: 1987
Signal Standard: Region 4 - PAL
Video Format: PAL
Case Type: Tall / DVD Case
Former Rental: No
Rating: M
Subtitle Language: Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Greek, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish
Sub-Genre: Drama
Director: David Mamet
Leading Role: William H Macy
Studio: Mgm
Modified Item: No
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Type: Dvd
Region Code: DVD: 4 (AU, NZ, Latin America...)
Format: DVD
Release Year: 1990
Language: English
Actor: Joe Mantegna, Lindsay Crouse
Features: Cult, Deleted Title
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller & Mystery
Run Time: 98 Mins
Movie/TV Title: House of Games
Country/Region of Manufacture: Australia
