TY - BOOK AU - Dahl,John AU - Edward Norton AU - Famke Janssen AU - Gretchen Mol AU - John Turturro AU - Paul Cicero AU - Ray Iannicelli AU - Matt Damon TI - Rounders AV - DVD 000664 PY - 1998/// CY - USA PB - Miramax Films KW - Drama KW - Crime N1 - A young man (Matt Damon) is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks; David Levien N2 - 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 UR - http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0128442/ ER -