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Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 9 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Drama
Written by:
Gil Cates Jr.
Mark Weinstock
Directed by: Gil Cates Jr.
Release Date:
Theatrical: April 25, 2008
DVD: August 19, 2008
Running Time: 86 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for language, sexual content and brief drug use
Starring Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, Bret Harrison, Gary Grubbs, Shannon Elizabeth, Jennifer Tilly, and Maria Mason
Set against the world of high stakes poker, DEAL follows the story of Alex Stillman, a cocky, hotshot, card-playing senior at Yale University. Alex dreams of becoming a professional Texas Hold'em poker player but does not yet have the skill to master the table. Fortunately for him, a chance encounter introduces Alex to retired poker legend, Tommy Vinson. Tommy was at the top of his game twenty years ago but gave it all up in order to save his family. Upon meeting Alex, Tommy realizes he can regain his own self-confidence, pride and a poker championship title by turning Alex into his protege. The two pair up and master every tournament they enter. The winning streak and friendship between the two is eventually thwarted by the interference of a Las Vegas call girl, Michelle. The pair eventually part ways and separately prepare for the World Poker Tour. Only one will take home the championship title. (MGM)
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What The Critics Said
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
There's no compelling reason to see Deal. Everything it offers is familiar to the extent where even though it's not a remake, it feels like one.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Tim Grierson
When you're working with clearly conventional material, it helps to attack it from a cockeyed angle or at least adopt a gritty, lived-in urgency, but Deal is fatally earnest.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
The main pleasure of this high-stakes-poker drama is watching a septuagenarian Burt Reynolds effortlessly revive his 70s screen persona as a strutting paragon of male shrewdness and sexuality.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Deal doesn't really care about the characters as much as it does the World Poker Championships, where Tommy and Alex end up. Once we get there the movie becomes interesting because Cates understands the game and its dramas a lot better than he understands people and theirs.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
The dull production obviously sees itself as an updated "Cincinnati Kid" for the World Poker Tour set, but the end result and its characters have all the originality and dramatic depth of a TV telecast.
Read Full Review >Variety John Anderson
Public fascination with Texas Hold 'em and other poker variations will likely bolster B.O., though more discriminating auds may choose to pass.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
Moving slowly these days, Reynolds does less than no acting in this role, and he’s still the best thing in Deal.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Mark Olsen
The direction by Gil Cates Jr. is inept at best, and the script by Cates and Marc Weinstock seems to operate under the assumption that trafficking in flabby clichés -- the kindly call girl, the scrappy youngster, the angry dad -- will somehow smooth over the underdeveloped characters.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
To think that a semi-major studio financed a production this low-rent and listless is amazing: Since when did MGM start making student films?
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.2 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
