The Music of Chance (1993)
- Starring:
- James Spader, Mandy Patinkin, (more)
- Director(s):
- Philip Haas
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R
Synopsis of The Music of Chance
Documentary filmmaker Philip Haas made his dramatic feature film debut with The Music of Chance, adapted from Paul Auster's terse, existential novel. The film follows the plight of two hapless drifters -- Jim Nashe (Mandy Patinkin), who is escaping family and responsibility with an inheritance and a red BMW, and Jack Pozzi (James Spader), a down-on-his-luck gambler and world class manipulator. Pozzi convinces Nashe to shoot the works and put his remaining $10,000 into a high stakes poker game against two rich suckers -- reclusive lottery winners Willie Stone (Joel Grey) and Bill Flower (Charles Durning), who share a lavish but isolated country estate, using the remains of their lottery fortune to construct a self-contained world on the grounds of their mansion. Instead of bilking the two millionaires, however, Pozzi and Nashe lose their windfall and find themselves indebted to Stone and Flowers, who compel them to work off their losses by constructing a stone monument on their estate, a chore that results in deception, flight, and possibly murder. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
Complete Cast of The Music of Chance
- James Spader - Jack Pozzi
- M. Emmet Walsh - Calvin Murks
- Joel Grey - Willy Stone
- Chris Penn - Floyd Murks
- Bonnie Timmermann
- Mandy Patinkin - James Nashe
- Charles Durning - Bill Flowers
- Samantha Mathis - Tiffany
- Pearl Jones - Louise
- Paul Auster - Driver
- Director(s):
- Philip Haas
- Writer(s):
- Belinda Haas, Philip Haas
- Producer(s):
- Dylan Sellers, Frederick Zollo
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- R(Not For Children, Adult Situations, Violence)
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