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Jun 22, 2012 · Lay the Favorite: Directed by Stephen Frears. 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.
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- 2 min
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 ...
- $14.7 million
- James Seymour Brett
- Randall Emmett, George Furla, Paul Trijbits
stand-in: Laura Prepon Leslie Garza ... script editor: spanish version Lanette Fugit Hannah ... stand-in: Jo Newman (as Lanette Fugit) Tamara Harel-Cohen ... assistant to mr. frears and mr. devincentis Ryan Hart ... production assistant Shelley Hatch ... key craft service Kimberly Hayes ...
Rated: 2.5/4 Dec 7, 2012 Full Review Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle "Lay the Favorite" is a small and not particularly ambitious movie, but it's pleasing and exceptionally well made.
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- Stephen Frears
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- Bruce Willis
Across the Web. Lay the Favorite on DVD March 5, 2013 starring Bruce Willis, Rebecca Hall, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Frank Grillo. A woman falls into the world of professional gambling in Vegas, where she starts working as a cocktail waitress in hopes of making fast cash.
- Stephen Frears
- Laura Prepon
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Dec 7, 2012 · A former stripper's talent with numbers lands her a job with a professional gambler who runs a sports book in Las Vegas. Stephen Frears. D.V. DeVincentis.
Dec 7, 2012 · A small and not particularly ambitious movie, but it's pleasing and exceptionally well made. It was directed by Stephen Frears, and while it's not up there with his best - "Dangerous Liaisons," "The Queen," "High Fidelity," "Cheri" - Lay the Favorite lavishes the same attention on the personal, on relationships, and, like most Frears films, it puts a woman at the center of the story.