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Four Dogs Playing Poker

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Four Dogs Playing Poker
DVD cover
Directed byPaul Rachman
Written byShawn David Thompson (as Thomas Durham)
William Quist
Produced bySteven Hoffman
Matt Salinger
StarringStacy Edwards
Balthazar Getty
Daniel London
Olivia Williams
Tim Curry
CinematographyClaudio Rocha
Edited byConrad M. Gonzalez
Music byBrian Tyler
Distributed byWarner Home Video
Release date
  • June 6, 2000 (2000-06-06)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Four Dogs Playing Poker is a 2000 crime thriller directed by Paul Rachman starring Stacy Edwards, Balthazar Getty, Olivia Williams, Daniel London and Tim Curry. Forest Whitaker makes a cameo appearance in the picture.[1]

Plot

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A group of friends steal a valuable statuette for a ruthless art dealer. The amateur thieves botch the delivery of the statuette and the art dealer demands that they pay him $1 million by the end of the week or face the consequences: certain death.

Desperate, the friends decide to take out a $1 million life insurance policy on one of themselves with the idea that if one of them is sacrificed, the others will collect on the policy and be able pay off the art dealer. What follows is a reckoning: The friends enter into a lethal lottery to choose who will be the victim and who will be the killer.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ Eisner, Ken. "Four Dogs Playing Poker". variety.com. Variety. Retrieved 17 October 2023.
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