High Roller (Player) / High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story (Stuey)

Director: AW Vidmer
Produced by: FA Vidmer
Scenario: AW Vidmer
Cast: Michael Imperioli, Renee Faia, Michael Nouri, Michael Pasternak, Pat Morita
Release date: 2003
Duration: 110 minutes
Country: USA
Genre: Drama, biography

High Roller

The film is dedicated to the life of Stu Angel. Who is he? Stu Anger at age 14 was the best card player in the back streets of New York. At the age of 20, he flees to Las Vegas from card debts and the mafia. In Las Vegas, he becomes the youngest world champion in the game of Poker , and soon loses everything won. Thus, the life of Stu Angela is like shuffling cards in a deck, then he is on top, then he is down. He participates in the most prestigious tournaments, makes the most insane bets, does the impossible. The result of the film is such that the price of a great triumph is always too high ...