Taglines: Jack Pozzi is about to take the biggest gamble of his life…
The Music of Chance movie storyline. Jim Nashe worked as a fireman, but a large inheritance and a divorce from his wife has left him free to buy a new car and see the country at his leisure. He picks up a hitchhiker, Jack Pozzi, who turns out to be a professional gambler.
Pozzi tells how he just lost his net worth when the poker game he was playing at was robbed and he was beaten after the others suspected him of orchestrating the robbery. Now he cannot afford the minimum $10,000 buy-in to play a poker game with a pair of eccentric old millionaires whom he had previously beaten handily. With money and time to spare, the intrigued Nashe offers to back Pozzi with $10,000 for a rematch.
The wealthy men, Flower and Stone, live together on a huge estate. They willingly agree to another game, but are not the suckers Pozzi takes them for. They win again. Nashe puts up his car as collateral against the cash if Flower and Stone will cut cards, winner take all. Nashe loses.
No clear alternative exists except to work off the debt. The quirky Flower and Stone have a pile of 10,000 heavy stones, said to be from a 15th-century castle originally. They would like to build a wall on their property, so they tell Nashe and Pozzi that if they devote the next 50 days to erecting the wall, their debt will be paid in full.
The Music of Chance is a 1993 American drama film directed by Philip Haas and starring James Spader, Mandy Patinkin, M. Emmet Walsh, Charles Durning, Joel Grey, Samantha Mathis, Chris Penn, Pearl Jones, Paul Auster and Jordan Spainhour. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. It is based on the book of the same name.
The Music of Chance (1993)
Directed by: Philip Haas
Starring: James Spader, Mandy Patinkin, M. Emmet Walsh, Charles Durning, Joel Grey, Samantha Mathis, Chris Penn, Pearl Jones, Paul Auster, Jordan Spainhour
Screenplay by: Paul Auster, Belinda Haas, Philip Haas
Production Design by: Hugo Luczyc-Wyhowski
Cinematography by: Bernard Zitzermann
Film Editing by: Belinda Haas
Costume Design by: Rudy Dillon
Set Decoration by: Christy Belt
Art Direction by: Ruth Ammon
Music by: Phillip Johnston
MPAA Rating: R for language.
Distributed by: IRS Media
Release Date: March 20, 1993
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