Overview

Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American gangster Teddy KGB. Promising his partner Jo he'll give up, he meets up with best friend Lester 'Worm' Murphy, just out of prison and owing lots of money to the wrong kind of people. McDermott becomes his co-guarantor and now there's only one way to raise the money, the pair have to get back into the game.

Cast

Matt Damon

Mike McDermott

Edward Norton

Lester 'Worm' Murphy

John Turturro

Joey Knish

Gretchen Mol

Jo

John Malkovich

Teddy KGB

Famke Janssen

Petra

Martin Landau

Abe Petrovsky

Michael Rispoli

Grama

Goran Višnjić

Maurice

N/A

Mal Z. Lawrence

Irving

N/A

Paul Cicero

Russian Thug

Ray Iannicelli

Kenny