Two For The Money Page #3

Synopsis: Brandon Lang loves football: an injury keeps him from the pros, but his quarterback's anticipation makes him a brilliant predictor of games' outcomes. Needing money, he leaves Vegas for Manhattan to work for Walter Abrams advising gamblers. Walter has a doting wife, a young daughter, and a thriving business, but he has problems: a bum heart, a belief he's a master manipulator, and addictions barely kept in check. He remakes Brandon, and a father-son relationship grows. Then, things go awry. Walter may be running a con. The odds against Brandon mount.
Genre: Drama, Sport, Thriller
Director(s): D.J. Caruso
Production: Universal Pictures
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
50
Rotten Tomatoes:
22%
R
Year:
2005
122 min
$22,862,049
Website
427 Views


you know as soon as you know it.

- Sooner.

- Yes sir.

- You ever sell before?

- No.

- Are you religious?

- I believe in God.

Hey Liz.

This is me 30 years ago right?

It's remarkable the resemblance.

I mean he's a little taller. I'll give him that.

Oh boy you know I'm not supposed

to do this. It's bad for my... condition.

Nobody knows this Liz OK?

So before I die...

Did you do anything

other than sports phone in Vegas?

Just the 900 recordings

you know 10 bucks a call.

That's chump change.

I mean we're going after

much bigger fish here.

You know networks don't talk about it

government can't tax it

but sports betting

is a 200-billion-dollar-a-year business.

- Whoa.

- Yeah.

A lot of gamblers out there man

and they have needs.

And come Monday morning after a losing

weekend they got big needs. Gargantuan.

See that? That's every

football game played last Sunday.

You know why Monday-night football's

the most watched game of the week?

Monday's the last chance bettors have

to climb out of the hole they got in

to pay their bookies on Tuesday.

Sports betting's illegal in 49 states

including this one.

But what we do is not.

We are 100% legal like stockbrokers

only instead of counting stocks

we advise people on how to bet.

Now if a client wins by taking our advice

we get a percentage or we ask for one

which they will gladly give us because

they want to keep getting the advice.

But if they lose we get zip.

So the object here my dear

tall athletic religious friend is to win.

I can do that.

- Hello. This is Walter...

- Hello Walter.

That's my cable show.

Now, after a nice

five-day vacation on my yacht...

Airs Saturday and Sunday morning

nationwide. We tape Thursday and Fri...

What's going on with my hair?

He did it again Liz.

I got one part of my head in Cleveland

the other's in Chicago.

What are we gonna do with this guy?

My barber. Should be shot. I want him dead.

For the first time,

I'm gonna release our three-team

college and pro parlays absolutely free.

If all the picks are free

how'd you get the yacht?

There's no yacht.

Next question.

Why give any picks for free?

Why not charge a fee up-front initially?

You make a good point. Next.

What's on the second floor?

That's where we print the money.

- Anything else?

- Of course not.

No I think I've got it.

I think everything's crystal clear Walter.

I like you you know that?

You and me - this thing's gonna work.

- I'm looking forward to it.

- Me too.

Ringling Brothers on one.

Tell them to hold that elephant.

You ever have a manicure?

There's a girl you gotta meet.

- Yeah? What's she like?

- She's beautiful. You're gonna like her.

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Dan Gilroy

Daniel Christopher Gilroy (born June 24, 1959) is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for writing and directing Nightcrawler (2014), for which he won Best Screenplay at the 30th Independent Spirit Awards, and was nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the 87th Academy Awards. Before becoming both a writer and director, Gilroy worked mostly as a screenwriter. His screenwriting credits include Freejack (1992), Two for the Money (2005), The Fall (2006), Real Steel (2011), and The Bourne Legacy (2012)—the last in collaboration with his brother Tony Gilroy. His wife, Rene Russo, has also been his frequent collaborator since the two met in 1992 and married later that year. more…

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