To celebrate the DVD and Digital release of Mississippi Grind, a bittersweet road movie starring Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn in pursuit of a high-stakes poker game in New Orleans.
We’re taking a look at the top 10 casino movies with Royal Vegas from the last few decades.
CASINO
Martin Scorsese’s epic three-hour mob movie starring Robert DeNiro is all about greed, deception, money, power, and murder between two mobster best friends and a trophy wife arguing over a gambling empire.
CASINO ROYALE
Armed with a licence to kill, Secret Agent James Bond (Daniel Craig) sets out on his first mission as 007 and must defeat a weapons dealer in a high stakes game of poker at Casino Royale, but things are not what they seem.
OCEAN’S ELEVEN
Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and his eleven accomplices plan to rob three Las Vegas casinos simultaneously. A classic must-watch!
OCEAN’S TWELVE
Daniel Ocean recruits one more team member so he can pull off three major European heists in this sequel to Ocean’s 11.
ROUNDERS
Mike Dermott (Matt Damon) is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.
MISSISSIPPI GRIND
Down on his luck and facing financial hardship, Gerry (Ben Mendelsohn) teams up with younger charismatic poker player, Curtis (Ryan Reynolds), in an attempt to change his luck. The two set off on a road trip through the South with visions of winning back what’s been lost.
LOCK STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS
A botched card game in London triggers four friends, thugs, weed-growers, hard gangsters, loan sharks and debt collectors to collide with each other in a series of unexpected events, all for the sake of weed, cash and two antique shotguns.
21
“21” is the fact-based story about six MIT students who were trained to become experts in card counting and subsequently took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings.
THE GAMBLER
Lit professor and gambler Jim Bennett’s debt causes him to borrow money from his mother and a loan shark. Further complicating his situation is his relationship with one of his students. Will Bennett risk his life for a second chance?
OWNING MAHOWNY
A bank manager with: (a) a gambling problem and (b) access to a multimillion dollar account gets into a messy situation. Based on the story of the largest one-man bank fraud in Canadian history.
Mississippi Grind is available on DVD and Digital Download 7th March, courtesy of Entertainment One.