Lay the Favorite

Lay the Favorite promoted as Lay the Favourite in the UK is a 2012 American comedy film starring Bruce Willis, Rebecca Hall, Catherine ZetaJones and Joshua Jackson. Based on Beth Raymers memoir of the same title, the film follows a young, freespirited woman as she journeys through the legal and illegal world of sports gambling. The film was directed by Stephen Frears.

A young woman named Holly, who lives at the same Vegas motel, arranges for Beth to meet Dink Heimowitz, a professional gambler who follows the fastchanging odds on sporting events and employs assistants at Dink, Inc., to lay bigmoney bets for him. Beth is intrigued and it turns out she has a good mind for numbers, easily grasping Dinks system and becoming his protege. A young journalist, Jeremy, becomes attracted to Beth, but shes hooked on the excitement and income that gambling provides and is not ready to settle for any kind of normal life.When she begins expressing a more personal interest in her mucholder mentor, Dinks sharptongued wife, Tulip, lets it be known in no uncertain terms that she wants Beth out of her husbands life. Against his advice, Beth accepts a similar job for a rival gambler, a man called Rosie who runs an illegal operation based in Curaao. She succeeds there at first, but both Rosie and the job turn out to be extremely dangerous, and several lives depend on the outcome of one last game of basketball. ........

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