High Roller - The Stu Ungar Story
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Actor: Evan Broder, Larry Bartels, Lon Gary, Renee Faia, Sam DiNicolaBrand: NEW Line Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 110 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-15
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Video
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- Based on a true story, Michael Imperioli stars as poker legend, Stu Ungar. A gambler by the age of 10, Ungar won millions playing card games. He was one of two people ever to win the World Series of Poker three times - twice before age 26. But, in spite of his success, a life of excess and addiction left him in tremendous debt and could only end in tragedy.Running Time: 110 min. Format: DVD MOV
DVD Reviews of High Roller - The Stu Ungar Story
DVD Review: Better than most casino movies
Summary: 3 Stars
Fans of HBO's "The Sopranos" and Martin Scorsese's "Casino" will enjoy "High Roller - The Stu Ungar Story", a story about the rise and fall of real life gambler Stu Ungar.
"Sopranos" lieutenant Michael Imperioli plays the lead role in this biopic. He is nothing special in the role, which apparently was supposed to portray a much younger man -- one that would be carded in a bar. Imperioli shows affinity for the ultimate loser but also shows his lack of breadth as an actor by playing the same role he plays in "The Sopranos". The producers lose some creidibility by never changing his appearance whether its 1978, 1989 or 1996.
Alumni from both "The Sopranos" and "Casino" play significant roles in this flick. One from each plays Imperioli's best buddies. Michael Nouri does some of the best work of his career in a one-dimensional role as mentor to the young Ungar, whose profligate talent as a cardshark appears as a boy of single digit years. Another actor plays the young Stu Ungar, a boy typically at odds with his father. That kid did a better job in the role than Imperioli, in my opinion.
But it's the story that's the clincher here, not the acting or players. And that follows young Stu from his earliest days in a household dominated by a strong father figure, to his high life as a Gin Rummy player, to his marriage and fatherhood years in Las Vegas, to his ultimate decline and death at an early age.
The story is always interesting and involving. In particular, this story is better crafted than two bigger budget casino flicks of recent years, the ridiculously-plotted "The Cooler" and the slick but superficial remake of 1960's "Ocean's 11". Neither of those films shows the humanity on display in "High Roller", whose basis in real life is obviously its strongest selling point on celluloid.
So rent, buy or borrow this movie if you like gambling, casino or human studies on film and settle in for a two-hour view into another life and another world, one far from the planet most of us inhabit.
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