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| Orion Pictures | Release Date: October 14, 1987 |
Starring:
J.T. Walsh, Jack Wallace, Joe Mantegna, Karen Kohlhaas, Lilia Skala, Lindsay Crouse, Mike Nussbaum, Ricky Jay, Steven Goldstein, Willo Hausman
Summary:
A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.
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This movie is awake. I have seen so many films that were sleepwalking through the debris of old plots and second-hand ideas that it was a constant pleasure to watch House of Games, a movie about con men that succeeds not only in conning the audience, but also in creating a series of characters who seem imprisoned by the need to con, or be conned.
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Mantegna and Nussbaum are so good as the con artists that their reading of Mamet's dialogue--and often Crouse's reading as well--justifies the movie. These actors have worked many times on stage with Mamet, as have J. T. Walsh, and cardsharp Ricky Jay (as a Las Vegas gambler), and when they latch onto these lines, they're like seasoned pitchers palming and scuffing the ball. Oozing confidence, they, and Mamet, put on a coldly skillful, killingly well - calculated show.
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House of Games is so bad it seems reasonable to conclude that God was out of town and Mamet's muse was in a coma. [16 Oct 1987]
Dec 17, 2019
Nice movie with mind trickery so to speak when watching it keeps you guessing.
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Jun 14, 2019
Empieza muy lenta, pero da un giro bueno a la media hora, el problema es que la historia ya se ha visto antes, y el final los ves venir, le falta potencia a ese final.
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