Lindsay Crouse
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Oct 31, 1999 · 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.
During a session one day, her patient Billy Hahn (Steve Goldstein) tells her his life is in danger because he owes money to a criminal figure named Mike Mancuso (Joe Mantegna), and threatens suicide, brandishing a gun. Margaret persuades him to surrender the weapon to her and promises that she will help him.
Watchlist. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. After one of her patients threatens suicide, psychiatrist Margaret Ford (Lindsay Crouse) confronts the source of his anxieties, a downtown bookie named ...
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The gambler ( Joe Mantegna) has never heard anything like this before. But he offers her a deal: If she will help him fleece a high-roller Texan in a big-stakes poker game, he will tear up the marker. She does so. She also becomes fascinated by the backroom reality of these gamblers who have reduced life to a knowledge of the odds.
Oct 5, 2012 · House of Games Official Trailer #1 - Joe Mantegna Movie (1987) HD - YouTube. Rotten Tomatoes Classic Trailers. 1.61M subscribers. 250. 50K views 11 years ago. Subscribe to TRAILERS:...
House of Games. The Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright and screenwriter David Mamet sat in the director’s chair for the first time for this sly, merciless thriller. Lindsay Crouse stars as a best-selling author and therapist who wants to help a client by making restitution for the money he owes to a gambler.
House of Games (1987) R 10/11/1987 (US) Crime , Thriller 1h 42m. User. Score. What's your Vibe ? Play Trailer. Human nature is a sucker bet. Overview. A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men. David Mamet. Director, Screenplay.
