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Seen in 2017 (341 movies items)"Pretty good road trip/gambling movie with great acting and chemistry between the leads."
BradWesley123's Movie Screenshots: Vol. 9 (50 movies items)" Director: Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck Cinematographer: Andrij Parekh Other Images "
BradWesley123's Movie Journal- December 2015 (38 movies items)" DVD- 1hr. 49min. First Viewing Directors Boden and Fleck (Half Nelson) once again extend a humanist eye to a couple of downtrodden characters in the exceptional Mississippi Grind. The script is delicate and subtle, until it falls apart (a bit) in the last act, but it's the performances that linger once the movie is over. Ryan Reynolds does some of his finest work here, balancing smug and vulnerable with aplomb, though it's Ben Mendelsohn who owns the movie with his sensitive worker as a gamblin"
“"We go down the Mississippi, but we hit up all the action!"
The latest feature to be written and directed by the filmmaking team of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Half Nelson), 2015's Mississippi Grind is old-fashioned all the way through to its core, evoking motion pictures from the '60s and '70s with its unhurried pacing and beautifully filmic cinematography. Taking notable inspiration from the likes of Five Easy Pieces and 1974's The Gambler, this is a motion picture about gambling, but it's not concerned with the usual glamour associated with Las Vegas or Atlantic City. Instead, Mississippi Grind is more dramatic, providing an unusually solemn, incisive examination of a potentially destructive hobby. The film's appeal is not derived from casino action, but rather from the interpl” read more
Movies Viewed in 2016 (109 movies items)" First Viewing Viewing Date: July 12th Via: Blu-ray Plot: Down on his luck and facing financial hardship, Gerry teams up with younger charismatic poker player, Curtis, in an attempt to change his luck. The two set off on a road trip through the South with visions of winning back what's been lost."
