Uncut Gems (2019) Rotten Tomates rating 92% This film was such a wild ride I had to catch my. The 5 Best Movies About Sports Betting You Need to Watch Right Now 1. Casino (1995) 2. The Color of Money (1986) 3. Eight Men Out (1988) 4. Lay the Favorite (2012) 5. Two for the Money (2005). Estimates indicate that upwards of $500 billion is illegally wagered each year on sports, so when the Supreme Court ruled on May 14, 2018, that sports gambling was now legal in all 50 states.
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Adam Sandler is jumping into the world of sports betting in a movie set to be released this winter.
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The actor and comedian is starring in Uncut Gems, where he plays a New York City-based jeweler that ends up making a series of high-stakes sports bets, which gets him involved with some shady individuals. Based on the beginning of the trailer, the early bets pay off.
Then, Sandler’s character dives deeper into the gambling world and begins to gamble on a regular basis, eventually fighting about debts with mob-like characters asking where their money is.
The film features Kevin Garnett, who plays himself, and New York sports radio personality Mike Francesa, who is featured in the trailer telling Sandler that he’s making “the dumbest f***ing bet I ever heard of.”
While the trailer doesn’t disclose what sparked the main character’s foray into gambling, the IMDB plot synposis for the movie gives some insight into what may have caused it.
“Howard Ratner, a jewelry store owner and dealer to the rich and famous, must find a way to pay his debts when his merchandise is taken from one of his top sellers and girlfriend,” reads the film’s description.
The movie is scheduled to be released on Dec. 13. Check out the trailer below.
Bookie MoviesMovies with gambling themes or scenes related to horse racing, racetracks, bookmaking, or sports betting.
In some cases, the related scenes are brief, but of sufficient value to list the movie.
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Date | Title | Comments |
1984 | AGAINST ALL ODDS | 128min., starring Jeff Bridges, Rachel Ward and Alex Karras; Director: Taylor Hackford. |
1949 | ANY NUMBER CAN PLAY | 112min., starring Clark Gable, Wendell Corey, Mary Astor and Alexis Smith; Director: Mervyn LeRoy. Gable as casino and race book owner. |
1981 | ATLANTIC CITY | 105min., starring Burt Lancaster and Susann Sarandon. Screenplay by John Guare. Directed by Louis Malle. |
1953 | BELLES OF ST. TRINIAN'S | 86min., starring Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell and George Cole; Comedy by Producer/director/writer team of Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliatt. |
1960 | BELLS ARE RINGING | 126min., starring Judy Holiday, Dean Martin, Eddie Foy Jr. [as bookie]; Musical directed by Vincente Minnelli. |
2002 | BIG SHOT -- CONFESSIONS OF A CAMPUS BOOKIE | 83min., comedy based on true incident in 1994; starring Nicholas Turturro; director: Ernest R. Dickerson; 20TH Century Fox production: movie made-for-cable. |
1952 | BLOODHOUNDS OF BROADWAY | 90min., starring Scott Brady as a bookie on the run from a government committee and Mitzi Gaynor as an aspiring Broadway performer. |
2003 | BOOKIES | 93min., Cast: Nick Stahl, Johnny Galecki, Lukas Haas, and Rachel Leigh Cook. Director: Mark Illsley. College kids become part-time bookies and attract attention of the Mob. |
1950 | CRY DANGER | 80min., starring Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, William Conrad, Richard Erdman, and Jean Porter. Directed by Robert Parrish. |
1950 | THE DAMNED DON'T CRY! | 103min., starring Joan Crawford, David Brian, and Steve Cochran. Director: Vincent Sherman. Short scene of a very swanky wire room. |
1950 | DARK CITY | 88min., starring Charleton Heston, Elizabeth Scott, & Jack Webb. |
1939 | THE DAY THE BOOKIES WEPT | 50min., Runyonesque comedy starring Betty Grable, Joe Penner, Hal Erickson, and William Newell as Maxie T. Bookmaker, Director Leslie Goodwins. |
1978 | DEAD EASY | 90min., starring Rosemary Paul and Scott Burgess; Director: Bert Diling. |
2000 | DINNER RUSH | 99min., starring Danny Aiello, Edoardo Ballerini, Kirk Acevedo, Vivian Wu, Mike McGlone, Summer Phoenix, John Corbett, and Sandra Bernhard. Director: Bob Giraldi. New York restaurant owner and bookie Louis Cropa lost a friend to a mob hit and his chef's gambling has caused problems with the Mob. |
1996 | DOGS: THE RISE AND FALL OF AN ALL-GIRL BOOKIE JOINT | 90min., starring Pam Columbus, Melody Beal, Pam Gray; Director: Eve Annenberg. |
1960s | DRAGNET 14202 [TV show] | 30min. [each episode]; five episodes: THE BOOKIE, THE BIG AMATEUR, BURGLARY - COURTROOM , NARCO - MISSING HYPE; starring Jack Webb; Columbia House VHS. |
1949 | DUKE OF CHICAGO | ??min., starring Tom Brown, Audrey Long, and Grant Withers; bookies try to get a boxer to take a dive. |
1988 | EIGHT MEN OUT | 119min., story of the 1919 Chicago White Sox scandel; starring John Cusack, Clifton James, Michael Lerner, Charlie Sheen; Director: John Sayles. |
1985 | FEVER PITCH | 95min., starring Ryan O'Neal and Catherine Hicks; Director: Richard Brooks. |
1937 | THE FRAME UP | 95min., starring Paul Kelly, Jacqueline Wells, Edward Earle, Paul Kelly, John Tyrrell, and Robert Emmett O'Connor; (A Columbia Pictures film) Director: Richard Brooks. |
1933 | FROM HELL TO HEAVEN | 66min., starring Carole Lombard, David Manners, Jack Oakie, Adrienne Ames and Sidney Blackmer. |
1974 | THE GAMBLER | 111min., starring James Caan, Lauren Hutton, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton and Burt Young; Director: Karel Reisz. |
1950 | GAMBLING HOUSE | 80min., starring Victor Mature, Terry More, & William Bendix. |
1942 | A GENTLEMAN AT HEART | 66min., starring Cesar Romero, Milton Berle, & Carole Landis. |
1962 | GOING MY WAY | 60min., Episode: 'Mr. Second Chance'. One hour T.V. series based on the classic 1944 film. Starring Gene Kelly as Father O'Malley, Leo G. Carroll as Father Fitzgibbon and Dick York as Tom Colwell. Guest star: Dan Duryea. |
1945 | HERE COME THE CO-EDS | 90min., starring Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lon Chaney Jr. |
1998 | HI LIFE | 82min., starring Eric Stoltz, Moira Kelly, Campbell Scott, Karen Cartlidge, and Daryl Hannah; Director: Roger Hedden. |
1935 | HOT TIP | 70min., starring James Gleason, Russell Gleason and ZaSu Pitts; RKO. |
1937 | IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU | 64min., based on a short story by Nathanael West, starring Alan Baxter, Andrea Leeds, Owen Davis, Jr., Astrid Allwyn, Walter Kingsford, Al Shean, Christian Rub, Elsa Janssen. |
1976 | THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE | 110min., starring.Ben Gazzara and Seymour Cassel; Director: John Cassavetes. |
1948 | KING OF THE GAMBLERS | 110min., Republic Pictures, starring.Janet Martin, William Wright and Thurston Hall; Director: George Blain [sports fixing theme. |
1961 | KING OF THE ROARING TWENTIES--THE STORY OF ARNOLD ROTHSTEIN | 109min., starring David Janssen, Dianne Foster, Jack Carson, Diana Dors, Dan O'Herlihy, Mickey Shaughnessy, Keenan Wynn, William Demarest, Joseph Schildkraut and Mickey Rooney; Director: Joseph Newman; . Based on the book 'The Big Bankroll' by Leo Katcher. |
1939 | KING OF THE TURF | 88min., starring Adolphe Menjou, Roger Daniel, and Dolores Costello. Edward Small Productions. |
1939 | THE LADY'S FROM KENTUCKY | ??min., starring George Raft as a former bookie and Ellen Drew as a horse owner. |
1997 | THE LAST BET (aka: LESSER PROFITS) | 88min., starring John Turturro, Scott Glenn, Elizabeth Perkins, Jimmy Smits, and Amy Brenneman. Director: William Devizia. Small-time, New York bookies on the run from a cop out to get them. |
1934 | THE LEMON DROP KID | 71min., starring Lee Tracy, Helen Mack and William Frawley; Director: Marshall Neilan. |
1951 | THE LEMON DROP KID | 91min., starring Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Lloyd Nolan; Director: Sidney Lanfield. |
1941 | LOVE ON THE DOLE | 99min., starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans and Joyce Howard; Director: John Taylor (based on novel by Walter Greenwood). |
1990 | MILLER'S CROSSING | 115min., starring Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, Marcia Gay Harden, John Turturro, and Jon Polito; Directed by Joel Coen. |
1949 | MISS GRANT TAKES RICHMOND | 87min., starring Lucille Ball and William Holden; Director: Lloyd Bacon. |
1998 | MONEY KINGS | (Also known as VIG) 96min., starring Timothy Hutton Peter Falk; Director: Graham Theakston. |
1979 | NORTH AVENUE IRREGULARS | 100min., starring Edward Herrmann, Barbara Harris, Susan Clark, Karen Valentine, Cloris Leachman, Patsy Kelly, Michael Constantine, Douglas V. Fowley, Virginia Capers, Steve Franken and Dena Dietrich; Director: Bruce Bilson. |
1984 | PHAR LAP | 107min., starring Tom Burlinson; Director: Simon Wincer. |
1997 | PHOENIX | 108min., starring Ray Liotta, Anthony LaPaglia, Daniel Baldwin, Jeremy Piven, Anjelica Huston, Tom Noonan (as a bookie); Director: Danny Cannon. |
1989 | PLOT AGAINST HARRY | 80min., starring Martin Priest (shot in 1969); Director: Michael Roemer. |
1948 | RACE STREET | 79min., starring George Raft (as a San Francisco bookie & club owner), Marilyn Maxwell, Harry Morgan and William Bendix; Director: Anthony Mann. |
1947 | RAILROADED | 75min., starring John Ireland, Sheila Ryan, and Hugh Beaumont; Director: Anthony Mann. |
1998 | THE RUNNER | 97min., starring Ron Eldard, Courteney Cox, John Goodman, and Bokeem Woodbine; Director: Ron Moler. |
1945 | SALTY O'ROURKE | 92min., starring Alan Ladd, Gail Russell, William Demarest, Bruce Cabot, Spring Byington; Director: Raoul Walsh . |
1937 | SARATOGA | 92min., starring Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Lionel Barrymore; Director: Jack Conway. |
1949 | SCENE OF THE CRIME | 94min., Starring Van Johnson, Gloria DeHaven, Arlene Dahl, and Tom Drake. |
1950 | 711 OCEAN DRIVE | 102min., starring Edmond O'Brien (as a telephone tech who helps the bookie joints), Dorothy Patrick, Joanne Dru, and Otto Kruger; Director: Joseph Newman. |
1977 | SKATEBOARD THE MOVIE | 97min., starring Leif Garrett, Chad McQueen, Allen Garfield and Tony Alva; Director: George Gage. |
1949 | SORROWFUL JONES | 88min., starring Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, William Demerest; Director: Sidney Lanfield. |
1973 | THE STING | 129min., starring Paul Newman Robert Redford Charles Durning Ray Walston, Eileen Brennan, Sally Kirkland and Robert Shaw; Director: George Roy Hill. |
1951 | THE STRIP | 85min., starring Mickey Rooney (as an aspiring jazz drummer), James Craig (as a Rooney's bookie), Sally Forrest, and William Demarest; Director: Leslie Kardos. Includes jazz performances by Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden and Earl 'Fatha' Hines. |
1951 | TWO DOLLAR BETTOR | 70min., starring Steve Brodie, Marie Windsor, John Litel, Barbara Logan, and Barbara Billingsley; Director: Edward L Cahn. |
2005 | TWO FOR THE MONEY | 122min., starring Matthew McConaughey, Rene Russo, Armand Assante, Jeremy Piven, Al Pacino; Director: D.J. Caruso. Sports betting theme. |
1998 | VIG | (Also known as MONEY KINGS) 96min., starring Timothy Hutton Peter Falk; Director: Graham Theakston. |
1962 | WHO'S GOT THE ACTION? | 93min., starring Dean Martin and Lana Turner; Director: Daniel Mann. |
1972 | WIN, PLACE OR STEAL | 88min., starring Dean Stockwell, Russ Tamblyn, Alex Karras, and McLean Stevenson; Director: Richard Bailey. |
1956 | WIRETAPPER | 80min., starring Bill Williams and Georgia Lee. |
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