Academy Award? winner Matt Damon ('The Bourne Supremacy') and Edward Norton ('The Italian Job') star in this story of passion, risk and the extreme price of friendship! After losing a high-stakes card game, Mike (Damon) gives up gambling for law school and a fresh start with his girlfriend (Gretchen Mol - 'Cradle Will Rock'). But then his best buddy (Norton) gets out of prison and in over his head with a ruthless card shark (John Malkovich - 'Being John Malkovich'). From there, Mike's strong sense of loyalty and the lure of the game - draws him back to the tables in a game he cannot afford to lose! Also starring John Turturro ('O Brother Where Art Thou?') and Oscar? winner Martin Landau ('Ed Wood').
Synopsis: A law school student (Matt Damon) loses his tuition money and everything else he has saved in a high stakes poker game. Learning his lesson (he thinks), he vows to his girl friend (Mol Gretchen) to give up playing forever. That lasts until his best friend (Edward Norton), a notorious card shark, is released from prison and drags him back into the circuit to pay debts he has incurred to a Russian mobster (John Malkovich). John Turturro also appears as a career poker player and Martin Landau plays a law professor who understands his student's need to be something other than what is dictated to him.