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Galvanized by David Mamet's punchy dialogue and a winding succession of surprises, House of Games is a terse thriller where confidence is currency. Read Critics Reviews
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It stars Crouse as a best-selling therapist whose patient has been threatened with broken legs by a gambler. She goes one night to the House of Games, crossing a street that is an Edward Hopper landscape, to confront the gambler (Mantegna). Through an open doorway, she sees a card game in progress.
Crouse walks through lonely night streets to the neon signs of the House of Games, a bar where she thinks she can find the gambler who has terrorized her client. She wants to talk him out of enforcing the debt. The gambler ( Joe Mantegna) has never heard anything like this before.
Hide Spoilers. Sort by: Filter by Rating: 7/10. Great story. Acting style is a big turn off. Lord_of_the_Things 5 May 2020. Found the story very engaging and although I saw some of the twists coming, there were enough surprises to keep my attention. One thing I can not seem to get past is the acting.
Psychiatrist Margaret Ford has achieved success with her recently published book about obsessive-compulsive disorder, but feels unfulfilled. Her patient, Billy Hahn, says his life is in danger because he owes money to a criminal figure named Mike Mancuso. He threatens suicide, brandishing a gun.
Sep 17, 2010 · By David Benedict. Consider the list of great comedy-thrillers that manage whiplash wit while being genuinely gripping: “ North by Northwest ,” “Charade,” “House of Games”… Hang on, David...