6.5
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Rounders (1998)
Rounders (1998)
Overview
Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American gangster Teddy KGB. Promising his partner Jo he'll give up, he meets up with best friend Lester 'Worm' Murphy, just out of prison and owing lots of money to the wrong kind of people. McDermott becomes his co-guarantor and now there's only one way to raise the money, the pair have to get back into the game.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Traditional
Political: Leans Right
Diversity: Low
Viewer Rating
6.5
Overview
Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American gangster Teddy KGB. Promising his partner Jo he'll give up, he meets up with best friend Lester 'Worm' Murphy, just out of prison and owing lots of money to the wrong kind of people. McDermott becomes his co-guarantor and now there's only one way to raise the money, the pair have to get back into the game.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Traditional
Primary
The film's central narrative champions individual skill, personal responsibility, and the pursuit of ambition in an unregulated, meritocratic environment as the solution to personal and financial challenges, aligning with right-leaning themes.
The movie features a traditional cast, predominantly white, without intentional race or gender swaps of established roles. Its narrative focuses on traditional identities without offering critique or incorporating explicit diversity, equity, and inclusion themes.
Secondary
Rounders is a drama centered on the underground poker scene, following a law student who returns to gambling to help a friend. The film does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or explore related themes, focusing entirely on its heterosexual male protagonists and their world.
The film "Rounders" focuses on the world of high-stakes poker and gambling debts. There are no identifiable transsexual characters or themes present in the narrative. The story does not engage with transgender identity in any capacity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Rounders is an original film from 1998, not an adaptation or reboot. All characters were created for this specific movie, meaning there are no pre-existing canonical or historical figures whose gender could have been altered.
Rounders is an original film with characters created for its screenplay. There are no pre-existing source materials, historical figures, or prior adaptations from which characters' races were established before this movie. Therefore, no character can be considered a 'race swap' as defined.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.3
7.0
Critic Ratings
6.3
5.3
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