Friends Tepper, Quigley, Fishman, and Bolan get together for a weekly poker night with two simple rules: Everyone contributes a lottery ticket to the pot, and no one checks the numbers until the game ends. But this particular, stormy night is different: Tepper plans to propose to his girlfriend, and just before the weekly game, he finds a wallet outside his apartment with a winning lottery ticket worth $6 million. Tepper calls the wallet's owner, Avery, to come collect what's his, but keeps the winning ticket for himself...only for Avery to show up and ask to play a hand.
Acting
Ryan Reynolds and Matthew Lillard in early chaotic form.
Writing
Survivor host Jeff Probst's only feature—he knows manipulation.
Direction
Single-apartment pressure cooker that never lets you breathe.
Director
Jeff Probst
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jeff Probst directed this between Survivor seasons, using reality TV timing to build paranoia. The entire film was shot in 18 days.
This is peak 2001 'guys being guys' cinema—before smartphones could have ended the plot in one text. The rotary phone energy is intentional time-capsule desperation.
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