The Winner Page #2
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- Year:
- 1996
- 92 min
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be alone forever."
Something like that.
And did she stick out
her hand and say,
"that'll be 500 bucks"?
Unfortunately,
I didn't have
the money at the time.
Say you'll marry me.
Say it's you and me
from this moment on.
We're in this together.
Please, Philip.
So I know.
I wanna know.
Yes, baby.
I'll marry you.
We'd like to welcome
all shriners...
Louise. Hey.
Where you been?
I've been lookin' for you.
That's where I've been.
What do you want?
Here's what I need.
I need you to go to my place
tonight and wreck it.
Why?
I'm bringing Philip there.
I want him to see it.
I'm gonna tell him
the mob did it because
I owe them money.
You do owe money.
I'm gonna tell him
I owe 150,000.
Philip is gonna want
to save me, and he can win
that money this Sunday.
One bet, he can win it all.
The odds are 36 to 1.
He's never bet
more than 1,000.
But this time
he'll be doing it for me.
He loves me, Jack.
Did you hear
the magic words, honey?
How much cash
has he got around?
He keeps some in a box
under his bed.
I counted it
the other night.
It's about 5,000.
If he puts all that
down and wins,
there's our 150,000.
We pay off Kingman,
we still have
$100,000 to spare.
Do you see how beautiful
life can be?
Louise, don't
look at me that way.
You know how it makes me feel.
It's good to feel, Jack.
You know what
I'm talkin' about.
You want to hear me say it?
Is that it? I think I can
get it up this time.
Why torture yourself, Jack?
We have a good thing,
don't we?
We understand each other.
Why mess with it?
A lot of people want
your lover boy to lose.
Kingman wants him to lose.
Yeah, but, see,
he is not gonna lose.
This is one thing
I know for sure.
Hope you're right.
I know one thing.
You got him.
I watched the two of you.
I don't think he'd suspect you
if you came at him
with a knife in your hand...
And blood coming out
of your eyes.
Louise, Jack,
do you have a light?
What is that?
A joint?
No, it's a roll-up.
I'm sorry. I don't.
This guy is so f***in' weird.
I know.
Talks with that phony French accent.
He's not even French.
I heard he's from New Zealand.
What the f*** is this?
Looks like a rehearsal.
For what? There's nothing
going on here tonight.
Hey, Garson!
Hey!
Get in here.
My name is gaston.
Whatever the f*** it is.
What is this?
I don't understand.
It's my rehearsal.
Could you take it up
in the parking lot?
For you... anything.
Come on, girls.
To the parking.
Now, listen, when you
tear up my place tonight,
do not f*** with
my aquarium or my canopy
over the bed, okay?
Okay.
Or my vase on the dresser.
I hate that f***in' vase.
That's the first thing
that'll go.
Jack, my father gave me
that vase the last time
I saw him, all right?
When was that?
I was 14. He took me
to a bus depot in Detroit.
I'll never forget it.
I've heard the f***in'
vase story, okay?
It was nighttime,
and it was rainin'.
You were cryin',
but you didn't know why.
Don't f*** with my vase.
Is that too much to ask?
Hey, Philip.
My dress, honey.
Ha! Joey was dyin'
to meet ya.
He saw you playin'.
He was so impressed
with your abilities...
Joseph.
It's a pleasure, Joseph.
Please, to you, it's Joey.
Right. Joey.
Were you lookin'
at wedding rings?
Yeah, I'm getting
married soon.
Hey! Congratulations!
We'll have a party.
That is something.
That's the best thing
about this place.
You can married like that.
I want to write
an article about you.
What?
I want to write an article
about you.
People all over
There's people out there
who don't believe you exist.
I want to write a book
about you.
A book?
You just said an article.
An article becomes a series
of articles becomes a book.
I write for a major, uh...
Metropolitan daily newspaper.
This is the kind of feature
I've been lookin' to write.
A major metropolitan
daily newspaper.
That's right, Phil.
I'm flattered.
Can't do this right now though.
I can't do an interview
right now.
It's a human interest piece
is what it is.
What the readers
are dying to know is
how'd you get so damn lucky?
I really never was before.
That's interesting.
Those are the kind
of comments, foresight...
And interesting thoughts
we need for this piece.
Is that thing rolling?
It's rolling.
Why... Sundays?
Why do you only
play on Sundays?
I first won on a Sunday.
And, why did you first play?
I don't know.
Nobody's really ever
asked me that before.
I was depressed.
Now that I think about it,
I was incredibly depressed.
I thought that the world
for me would always be...
A lonely place full
of deceit and suffering...
I'd never understand.
I felt lost in a
huge crowd of strangers...
I couldn't penetrate.
Soon it seemed the wheel was...
was calling out to me.
That... that it
was pulling me...
Into the world,
and I wouldn't
be allowed to resist.
And how did it feel?
How did it feel to win?
Like I might finally know
what it's like to be happy.
I thought that the world...
go on. Don't stop.
Let it out.
I felt lost in the crowd
of the world.
And I wanted to leave.
Vegas?
The world.
I haven't thought about
this in a while, but now
that I think about it,
that night I first won
I had planned to kill
myself at midnight.
I've thought...
I've thought about that too.
I think all great men have.
For your out-of-state,
cheque-cashing needs,
the money market is here...
whether you have
a personal cheque, two party,
government, cashier's cheque
or payroll cheque,
the money market
will cash it for you.
He has the ticket.
Money
market at the casino cashier...
Will help you with your needs,
letting you get back
to the action.
Oh, my God!
Oh! My God! Jesus!
- Everything wrecked.
- Well, they left your jewelry.
My mother gave me this
the last time I saw her,
Philip.
We should
call the police.
No!
I owe some people
a lot of money.
Louise!
Think they're gonna kill me?
You know, I mean, I...
we should leave!
I'm tired of running.
How much do you owe?
I can't even tell you,
Philip.
A quarter of a million dollars.
Louise.
Oh, don't.
Thank you, Philip.
I thought I still had time.
I've been paying them off
in slow increments.
My mother
died last year.
Oh.
And then my father
three days later.
He couldn't live without her.
It was all up to me to take care
of the funeral arrangements.
I had no idea how expensive
all that is.
They've got you screwed to
the wall unless you cremate.
I had nowhere to turn.
One of those
pauper's graves.
A pauper's grave?
Strangers piled together
in some ditch somewhere.
Somebody told me
you can't even clothe them.
Thank you.
These guys just pour
the money on you at first,
because they want
to get you hooked.
Before I knew it, the 50 grand
had turned into 100.
When I couldn't pay
that back, they added on
some f***ing crazy interest,
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