Did we miss something here? Like a plot? This is a well-acted version of David Mamet's three-hander play, but you may be hard-put to fathom what any of it means, even though (or perhaps because) its characters never use one word where eight will do. Dennis Franz (who deserves a better big-screen break than this) is a ghetto junk dealer and Dustin Hoffman his seemingly unemployed acquaintance (friend would be too strong a word here) who joins him and three others in a weekly game of poker where the rest may or may not be cheating. The synopsis tells us that the two men and perhaps their teenage 'gofer' (Sean Nelson) are planning some sort of robbery, although you'd be pushed to glean that from the movie. Hoffman appears to be playing both ends against the middle, and the two men rant and swear a lot in a meaningless sort of way. The film comes to no definite conclusion except that Hoffman has wzecked Franz's shop in a fit of temper. We thought they should have stuck to poker.


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