House Of Games
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Initial release | USA |
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Directors | David Mamet |
Screenplay | David Mamet |
Jonathan Katz | |
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Awards | Best Screenplay Award |
London Film Critics' Circle Award for Screenwriter of the Year | |
London Film Critics' Circle Award for Film of the Year | |
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ID | 775731 |
About House Of Games
After one of her patients threatens suicide, psychiatrist Margaret Ford (Lindsay Crouse) confronts the source of his anxieties, a downtown bookie named Mike (Joe Mantegna). Once she decides that Mike is not a serious threat, however, she herself becomes interested in his world of high-stakes gambling, and makes use of her skills at reading "tells," becoming entrenched in his dealings. Things get dangerous, though, when Mike turns out not to be a bookie at all, but a con man.