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Deal

It’s quite possible that I still would have been bored out of my mind during Deal even if I cared a lick about poker. This gambling drama is so tied to the card games onscreen, whole segments of it turn into the equivalent of the televised World Series of Poker, complete with announcers. And while that event has its viewers, they don’t pay $10 or more to watch it in a movie theater. With Alex Stillman and Burt Reynolds anchoring the clichéd story of a college-age poker prodigy and his mentor.

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