Croupier (film)

Croupier is a 1998 British neonoir film directed by Mike Hodges and starring Clive Owen. The film attracted a strong critical following in North America and helped to launch Owens acting career there. It uses interior monologues in the style of many early noir detective films.

Jack Manfred Clive Owen is an aspiring writer going nowhere fast. To make ends meet and against his better judgment, he takes a job as a croupier. The interview was set up by his father, a smalltime hustler back home in South Africa.Jack finds himself drawn into the casino world, and the job gradually takes over his life. He goes drinking with Matt Paul Reynolds, a croupier whom he knows is cheating the casino. He sleeps with a fellow croupier named Bella Kate Hardie in contravention of casino policy. His relationship with girlfriend Marion Gina McKee begins to deteriorate when he lets her read part of his book about a cold, unfeeling croupier who enjoys seeing gamblers lose a character transparently based on Jack himself. Bella confronts Jack at his apartment, accuses him of getting her fired and tells Marion about the onenight stand. ........

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