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Jun 22, 2012 · With Rebecca Hall, Joel Murray, Hugo Armstrong, Corbin Bernsen. Ex-private dancer Beth aspires to be a Las Vegas cocktail waitress, when she falls in with Dink, a sports gambler. Sparks fly as she proves to be something of a gambling prodigy--much to the ire of Dink's wife, Tulip.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Stephen Frears
- 2012-06-22
Lay the Favorite is a 2012 American comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears and written by D.V. DeVincentis, and stars Bruce Willis, Rebecca Hall, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Joshua Jackson. Based on Beth Raymer 's 2010 memoir of the same name, the film follows a young, free-spirited woman as she journeys through the legal and illegal world ...
A former stripper's (Rebecca Hall) talent with numbers lands her a job with a professional gambler (Bruce Willis) who runs a sports book in Las Vegas.
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Jan 27, 2012 · So while Hall desperately wanted to star as Las Vegas stripper Beth Raymer in an adaptation of her book Lay The Favorite, a humorous memoir of her past in sports gambling, alongside Bruce Willis and Vince Vaughn, which debuted at Sundance.
- Chris Mckittrick
“Lay the Favorite” feels like it should be a better gambling movie – funnier, like “The Sting,” or more exciting like “The Cincinnati Kid.” But despite a cast that includes Rebecca Hall, Bruce Willis, Vince Vaughn and Catherine Zeta-Jones – and a director like Stephen Frears – “Lay the Favorite” (opening in limited release ...
Dec 6, 2012 · Lay The Favorite casts Hall as a quintessential daddy’s girl who flees a bad situation in Florida and heads to Las Vegas to realize her dream of becoming a cocktail waitress at a casino.When ...
