
Rounders (1998)
Trust everyone... But always cut the cards.
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Rounders rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic
With 63% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.3/10 on IMDb and 53/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.
About Rounders
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 of Rounders

Matt Damon
as Mike McDermott

Edward Norton
as Lester 'Worm' Murphy

John Turturro
as Joey Knish

Gretchen Mol
as Jo

John Malkovich
as Teddy KGB

Famke Janssen
as Petra

Martin Landau
as Abe Petrovsky

Michael Rispoli
as Grama

Goran Višnjić
as Maurice
- M
Mal Z. Lawrence
as Irving
- P
Paul Cicero
as Russian Thug

Ray Iannicelli
as Kenny
Rounders facts
- Budget
- $12M
- Box office
- $22.9M
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Audience opinions
What the audience liked
- •Atlantic City casino setting provides authentic gritty crime-drama atmosphere effectively
- •Russian mafia subplot adds serious stakes beneath gambling drama surface narrative
- •Friendship themes ground character relationships amidst criminal underworld moral compromises
What the audience disliked
- •Plot mechanics around credit card fraud feel underdeveloped compared to poker focus
- •Pacing occasionally stalls during exposition-heavy scenes explaining gambling mechanics
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