Tony meets up with David, an old school friend at a parent's function at Meadow's high school. David expresses interest in joining a high-stakes poker game that Tony has organized, but Tony isn't so sure that David can handle it. He allows it, but his misgivings turn out to be well-founded when David, now heavily in debt to Tony, reveals that he wanted in the game in order to pay off gambling debts to Richie Aprile. Tony's collection tactics start impacting the lives of Meadow's school friend ...[Read Story ]
Even though this movie clearly establishes early on that it takes place at the real Ft. Polk, Louisiana, USA (including displaying a big, on-screen, entrance sign at the very beginning), all the sources of film data describing this movie state that it takes place at 'fictional' Ft. Lake, Louisiana, USA. The actors had no trailers, make-up artists, hairstylists, chairs or any of the typical luxuries. The paperback book Bozz is reading at the beginning of the film is Dalton Trumbo's famous ...[Read Story ]