Welcome back to Bullwark Movie Club.

I am really excited to be talking about movies with my good friends here, Sarah and JVL.

And we are talking about one of our, one of my, I don't know about you guys.

I won't speak for you.

One of my favorite indie era, like the 90s, Indies era movies, Rounders, which was not a huge hit, not a huge hit on initial release,

got a lot of buzz and became really kind of a seminal movie as the online poker boom took

off a few years later. Chris Moneymaker wins the World Series of poker. But Rounders itself is a

fascinating just movie- movie qua movie because it

stars Matt Damon, uh, right after he has won the Oscar for Goodwill Hunting, right? He

has won the screenplay Oscar with Ben Affleck. He stars in this movie with Ed Norton, who is

himself a kind of up and coming star right before. He is in Fight Club with Brad Pitt.

It's just this kind of perfect storm of talent.

And then nobody went to go see it.

Nobody went to see this movie.

And then it catches a second life on cable,

catches a second life on DVD.

It becomes one of those basic cable classic dorm room DVD movies that everybody watches and passes around.

The basics here, pretty straightforward.

Mike McDy, who is played by Matt Damon, is a poker player.

He plays in the local games in New York City.

He's putting himself through law school by winnings.

He's grinding out 20, 30 grand a year,

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