![]() With this, the tale of "Rounders" begins. "If you sit down at a card table and can't spot the sucker at the table within the first half-hour, it only means one thing - the sucker is you." The film opens with a very simple statement, a voice-over narration from Mike McDermott, played by Matt Damon, which captures the essence of "Rounders": The characters in producer Ted Demme's ("Beautiful Girls," "The Ref") new high-stakes drama "Rounders" may not have been dissolute or rakish, but hustlers they were indeed. Worm, played by Edward Norton, has his money, cigarettes and all the cards on the table in "Rounders"Ī "rounder" is defined in Webster's Dictionary as "a dissolute or rakish person." World champion poker player Johnny Chan has been quoted as defining a "rounder" more simply, using only one word: hustler. ![]() Catalyst - Edition 4 - The Arts Magazine of the Arizona Daily Wildcat: Movies - Card Sharks ![]()
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