The Music of Chance (1993)
Average Rating: 7.1/10
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Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 0
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Documentary filmmaker Philip Haas made his dramatic feature film debut with The Music of Chance, adapted from Paul Auster's terse, existential novel. The film follows the plight of two hapless drifters -- Jim Nashe (Mandy Patinkin), who is escaping family and responsibility with an inheritance and a red BMW, and Jack Pozzi (James Spader), a down-on-his-luck gambler and world class manipulator. Pozzi convinces Nashe to shoot the works and put his remaining $10,000 into a high stakes poker game
Jun 4, 1993 Wide
Jan 19, 1994
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Cast
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James Spader
Jack Pozzi -
Mandy Patinkin
James Nashe -
M. Emmet Walsh
Calvin Murks -
Charles Durning
Bill Flowers -
Joel Grey
Willy Stone -
Samantha Mathis
Tiffany -
Chris Penn
Floyd Murks -
Pearl Jones
Louise -
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Paul Auster
Driver -
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Haas' literal-minded adaptation, something he also did effectively with the more visually opulent Angels and Insects, is helpful in directly laying out our own moral debate, where our sense of social obligation bumps up against our moralistic outrage.
A true original. Fascinatingly off-beat. One of the most underrated, overlooked films of the 1990s.
Spellbing film about the capriciousnes of human nature and the soullessness of lives enslaved to wealt
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This is truly a movie that I had NO IDEA where it was going to lead me in the next few minutes. Spader is simply amazing and intriguing - and you just start wondering if these normal people are stuck in some sort of metaphysical hell.
Complete character piece and worth your 90 minutes.