Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game

Name: Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: January 12, 2018
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 48
Cast: Alexander Cook, Anabel Graetz, Elaine Victoria Grey, John Cellini, London Hall

2018

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Gravitas Ventures | Release Date: January 12, 2018 | R

Starring: Alexander Cook, Anabel Graetz, Elaine Victoria Grey, John Cellini, London Hall, Maria Dizzia, Martin Landau, Molly Bettencourt, Pamela Dubin, Paul Sorvino

Summary: Dr. Abe Mandelbaum (Martin Landau) has just moved into a new elderly care manor with his ailing wife. After forming an unlikely friendship with a womanizing gambler, their relationship is tested when they each try to convince a mysterious nurse that they are her long-lost father.

Director: Howard Weiner

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 85 min

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Joe Leydon

Jan 18, 2018

This low-key and deeply felt indie is unsentimentally blunt while addressing the humiliating debilitations that often define geriatric life. At the same time, however, it scrupulously eschews excessive grimness and shameless heart-tugging, and elicits more than a few laughs in the bargain, while focusing more often on how the title characters deal with last chances and unfinished business. Read full review

Jacob Oller

Jan 11, 2018

The film’s highlight is the swaggering Sorvino. More charming with age, like wine or scoundrels, he manages to enrapture without pandering, entertain without sacrifice or compromise. Read full review

Serena Donadoni

Jan 11, 2018

In the actor’s final role, Landau’s expressive power plays out in the soft folds of his gaunt face. Weiner offers a comforting vision of unlikely friendship and the peace an important man can find by embracing his ordinariness. Read full review

John DeFore

Jan 18, 2018

The creativity doesn't match up to the ideals here, even if Abe & Phil does offer one of the better final scenes (a grace note, really) seen in recent indies. Read full review

Michael Rechtshaffen

Jan 11, 2018

Tripping over soapy subplots and maudlin conventions, it loses its footing just as Abe regains his mojo. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Jan 11, 2018

The medical tidbits, however awkwardly presented, are the most distinctive aspects of the script. The flat direction, alas, is not the work of a filmmaker. Read full review

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