Four Dogs Playing Poker | |
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Released | 2000 |
Directed by | Paul Rachman |
Starring | Balthazar Getty Olivia Williams George Lazenby |
featuring John Taylor |
Four Dogs Playing Poker is a 2000 crime thriller film directed by Paul Rachman, starring Balthazer Getty and John Taylor.
Plot[]
A group of friends steal a valuable statuette for a ruthless art dealer. The amateur thieves botch the delivery of the statuette and the art dealer demands that they pay him $1 million by the end of the week or face the consequences: certain death.
Desperate, the friends decide to take out a $1 million life insurance policy on one of themselves with the idea that if one of them is sacrificed, the others will collect on the policy and be able pay off the art dealer. What follows is a reckoning: The friends enter into a lethal lottery to choose who will be the victim and who will be the killer.
Cast[]
- Olivia Williams - Audrey
- Balthazar Getty - Julian
- Arly Jover - Maria
- George Lazenby - Carlo
- Tim Curry - Felix
- Forest Whitaker - Mr. Ellington
- Inday Ba - Punk Chick
- John Taylor - Dick
James Bond connection[]
Four Dogs Playing Poker star George Lazenby is best known for portraying James Bond in the 1969 film On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Duran Duran later did the theme song "A View To A Kill" for the 1985 movie of the same name.