And as the two stars play a pair of friends who travel the poker circuit attempting to pay off a debt, they build an engaging chemistry that bolsters the film’s quality through and through. In 'Ocean's Thirteen', Reuben is forced out of a partnership by Willy Bank, leading to a breakdown that. In Ocean's Eleven, Tishkoff gets muscled out of his Vegas hotel by Terry Benedict, which is the reason he finances the expensive casino-caper that Danny Ocean leads.

That is how cult classics tend to work, after all. Reuben Tishkoff is a flamboyant business kingpin and also an old school business tycoon in the Las Vegas casino industry. And that’s in spite of Matt Damon - fresh off his critically acclaimed screenwriting and acting efforts with Good Will Hunting (1997) - starring alongside Edward Norton, who just had an incredible string of films a few years prior, which included an Oscar-nominated performance in Primal Fear (1996).īut, again: Rounders (1998) is held in high regard today even with those initially negative numbers in mind. It received lukewarm responses from critics upon release, and didn’t even double its $12 million budget when playing in theaters throughout the world.

Directed by John Dahl, this is the only film on the list that has gone down as a true cult classic.

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