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Movie
The Cooler
Synopsis
Writer/director Wayne Kramer offers a glimpse into the aging Las Vegas casino world with the romantic drama The Cooler. Bernie Lootz (William H. Macy) is extremely unlucky at gambling, and he owes the Shangri-La casino over 100,000 dollars. He is so unlucky that he is hired as a "cooler," someone to gamble next to high rollers and give them some of his bad luck to stop them from winning. This arrangement works out for awhile, until Bernie has almost paid off his debt and meets cocktail waitress Natalie Belisario (Maria Bello). The two start to fall in love and Bernie's luck begins to change. However, the old-fashioned mob boss Shelly Kaplow (Alec Baldwin) isn't going to let Bernie go so easily. Meanwhile, Larry Sokolov (Ron Livingston) arrives on the scene to help update the business management of the old mobster-run casino. Also starring Joey Fatone and Paul Sorvino as lounge singers. The Cooler was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize in the dramatic competition at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.
Cast
- William H. Macy
- Alec Baldwin
- Maria Bello
- Ron Livingston
- Paul Sorvino
- Arthur Nascarella
- Shawn Hatosy
- Estella Warren
- Joey Fatone
- M.C. Gainey
- Ellen Greene
- Don Scribner
- Tony Longo
- Richard Israel
- Timothy Landfield
- T.J. Gioia
- Jewel Shepard
- Gordon Michaels
- Doc Watson
- Dan Lemieux
- Cherilyn Hayres
- Frank Hannah
- Toby Corbett
- Brett Morrison
- Wendy Weidman
- Scott A. Hecker
- Bryan Furst
- Joe Madden
- Amanda Mackey Johnson
- Wayne Kramer
- James Whitaker
- Noon Orsatti
- Sig De Miguel
- Andrew Busey
- Byron Wilson
- Jeremy Oddo
- Edward R. Pressman
- Cathy Sandrich Gelford
- John Schmidt
- Dan Lemieux
- Alessandro Camon
- Sig De Migual
- Robert Gryphon
- Arthur Coburn
- Kristin M. Burke
- Tateum Kohut
- Frank Hannah
- Elliot Lewis Rosenblatt