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Rated NR · 105 min. · 2014
Writer-director Greg Francis has a million good ideas, and a zillion bad ones, and the imbalance eventually sinks his debut film. Indiana beat cop Stan Jeter (a charismatic Beau Mirchoff) has just been promoted to detective, which earns him a seat at the weekly poker game of five seasoned detectives who love to recount their most memorable cases. Structured as a series of flashbacks, Poker Night opens on a badly wounded Stan, leaps back to the moment he was kidnapped and locked in a basement torture chamber by a hooded serial killer, then proceeds back even further, to the individual stories Stan's poker mates told him.

The cop tales are quirky and richly detailed, and viewers will want more of them, and of the gifted character actors telling them -- Ron Perlman, Giancarlo Esposito, Ron Eldard, Corey Large, and Titus Welliver. But Francis has trapped poor Stan in that basement -- Super Glued to the wall, no less -- and he not only has to get him out, he has to reveal the identity of the killer, who is, of course, connected to the five cops. If you shackled the cast in a basement and threatened them with Super Glue, they probably couldn't explain the film's nutty, twist-drenched finale. By Chuck Wilson
Director: Greg Francis
Writer: Greg Francis
Cast: Beau Mirchoff, Ron Perlman, Giancarlo Esposito, Corey Large, Titus Welliver, Halston Sage, Ron Eldard, Michael Eklund and Kieran Large

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