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| Lay the Favorite | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Stephen Frears |
| Produced by | Randall Emmett George Furla Paul Trijbits |
| Screenplay by | D.V. DeVincentis |
| Based on | Lay the Favorite: A Memoir of Gambling by Beth Raymer |
| Starring | Bruce Willis Rebecca Hall Catherine Zeta-Jones Joshua Jackson |
| Music by | James Seymour Brett |
| Cinematography | Michael McDonough |
| Edited by | Mick Audsley |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Cheetah Vision Random House Films The Weinstein Company |
Release date |
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| 94 minutes | |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $20 million |
| Box office | $1,576,687 |
Lay the Favorite (promoted as Lay the Favourite in the UK) is a 2012 American comedy-drama film starring Bruce Willis, Rebecca Hall, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Joshua Jackson. Based on Beth Raymer's memoir of the same title, the film follows a young, free-spirited woman as she journeys through the legal and illegal world of sports gambling. The film was directed by Stephen Frears.
Plot[edit]
Lay the Odds To wager more money on a proposition than one hopes to win. Lay the Points A wager on a favorite in a point-spread event. Lay the Price A wager on a favorite in a money line event. Leak To lose part or all of one's winnings due to questionable gambling habits. See also blow back.
Lay the Odds: To wager on your favorite. In Roulette, betting on you favorite number. Layout: The structure. It gives information where to place the wager, how much and where to start. Layout means the structure if the game. Load Up: The maximum wager can be placed. Like in slot machines, the maximum coins it will permit. Throughout “Lay the Favorite,” Raymer means to give up the high-risk/high-reward life of professional gambling. Yet every time she tries to get out, she gets pulled back in.
Beth is becoming bored with her life in Florida, doing stripteases and lap dances for private customers. Her dad, Jerry, tells her to follow her dream of moving to Las Vegas, where she seeks honest work as a cocktail waitress.
A young woman named Holly, who lives at the same Vegas motel, arranges for Beth to meet Dink Heimowitz, a professional gambler who follows the fast-changing odds on sporting events and employs assistants at Dink, Inc., to lay big-money bets for him. Beth is intrigued and it turns out she has a good mind for numbers, easily grasping Dink's system and becoming his protégée and he views her as his lucky charm. When Beth begins expressing a more personal interest in her much-older mentor, Dink's sharp-tongued wife, Tulip, lets it be known in no uncertain terms that she wants Beth out of her husband's life. As a result, from pressure from his wife, Dink lets Beth go.
A young journalist from New York, Jeremy, meets Beth in the casino and they immediately hit it off and she makes plans to move back to New York with him, having nothing left in Las Vegas to keep her there. She is hooked on the excitement and income that gambling provides and backs out suddenly whenever Dink, facing a heavy losing streak without his lucky charm, asks her to come back to work for him.
Whenever Dink's losing streak continues even with Beth's return, he has a meltdown and fires everyone in his office. Having enough, Beth goes to New York to be with Jeremy but accepts a similar job for a rival bookie called Rosie. Gambling is illegal in New York and Dink worries about Beth. Rosie then sets up a legal operation based in Curaçao and Beth goes down to help run the betting. Rosie and his men are more interested in drugs and hookers and Beth wants out. A New York gambler, Dave Greenberg, is in debt for sixty-thousand dollars and may be working for the Feds.
Dink and his wife Tulip come to New York to help out Beth and Jeremy. They strong arm Greenberg and he gives them a hot tip on a New Jersey basketball team. The team wins in the last second by one point and everyone clears their gambling debts. The movie is a true story based on Beth Raymer's memoir who in real life goes to college and becomes a writer.
Cast[edit]
- Bruce Willis as Dink Heimowitz
- Rebecca Hall as Beth Raymer
- Catherine Zeta-Jones as Tulip Heimowitz
- Joshua Jackson as Jeremy
- Vince Vaughn as Rosie
- Laura Prepon as Holly
- John Carroll Lynch as Dave Greenberg
- Corbin Bernsen as Jerry Raymer
- Frank Grillo as Franky
Production[edit]
Filming began in April 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada.[citation needed] Shooting also took place in New Orleans, and New York City.[citation needed] It was released January 21, 2012.
Reception[edit]
The film received negative reviews from critics. It holds an 18% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 51 reviews with the consensus: 'A clumsy misstep for director Stephen Frears, Lay the Favorite puts all its chips on endearing quirk only to go bust.'
Lay The Favorite 2012
External links[edit]
- Lay the Favorite on IMDb
- Lay the Favorite at Rotten Tomatoes
- Lay the Favorite at Box Office Mojo