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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305336303
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 630533630X
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Lions Gate
Release Date: April 27, 1999
Running Time: 96 minutes
Sales Rank: 65597
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: December 04, 1998
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The damage that a gambling addiction can unleash
Money Kings (1998) is a movie that has lost none of its relevance,
even 10 years after its completion. Although billed as a mob movie,
this picture is very realistic and natural about those who are
compelled to gamble, the loansharks who profit from the juice, the
bookies who reap big profits on the bets, and the police who get
fat from payoffs for looking the other way.
The entire activity seems symbiotic, and harmonious, until a
wildcard is thrown ... Read More
Rating:  - A Good Movie, but Very Depressing
This movie reminds me of tragedies like Hamlet where just about all the main characters die at the end. This movie was a very negative depiction of the illegal gambling/bookie world.
Peter Falk plays this aging bookie, Vinnie who is about to be replaced by this young jerk Tony, who is played by Freddie Prinze Jr. Lauren Holly (Marybeth) and Timothy Dutton (Frankie) are a young married couple with big problems because Frankie is an unemployed drunk with a tendency to make bets that lose ... Read More
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