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Double Down (film)

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Double Down
Directed byMars Callahan
Written byMars Callahan
Doug Klein
Produced byAndrew Molina
Byron Werner
StarringJason Priestley
Alicia Coppola
Mars Callahan
Jeremy Blackman
Dinah Manoff
Richard Portnow
David Proval
Peter Dobson
Karen Dior
Kane Picoy
Justin Jon Ross
Narrated byKane Picoy
CinematographyChristopher C. Pearson
Edited byMichael Chaskes
Music byMicha Liberman
S. Unger
Distributed byLions Gate
Release date
  • 2001 (2001)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Double Down[1] (original titled Zigs) is a 2001 English language drama starring Jason Priestley,[1] Peter Dobson and Richard Portnow and directed by Mars Callahan. The film received an R rating by the MPAA.[1]

Plot

The film is about four young compulsive gamblers wasting their lives on booze, broads and bookies. David (Jason Priestley), the heavy-drinking ladies man. Mike (Kane Picoy), a degenerate gambler. Cory the Jersey Jinx (Peter Dobson). Brett (Justin Jon Ross), the guy who tells every girl he loves her on the first date.

When they find themselves in debt to a psychotic Christopher Walken obsessed hit man (Mars Callahan) they come up with a radical plan to get out of debt with a fixed game.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Double Down". The New York Times.