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Owning Mahowny

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Original title

Owning Mahowny

Year

2003

Running time

104 min.

Country

Canada

Director

Richard Kwietniowski

Screenwriter

Maurice Chauvet. Book: Gary Stephen Ross

Cast

Music

Richard Grassby-Lewis, John Hassell, Bob Locke, Tim Norfolk

Cinematography

Oliver Curtis

Producer

Alliance Atlantis Communications, CPTC, Natural Nylon Entertainment, Astral Media, Ontario Film and Television Tax Credit, Téléfilm Canada. Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Genre

Drama | Gambling. Biography. 1980s

Synopsis

Dan Mahowny (Hoffman) is an assistant bank manager with a head for numbers, a knack for making decisions, and a devastating appetite for gambling. Using $10.2 million of siphoned bank funds, Mahowny gambles for the thrill of the bet. By day, he works obsessively in the bank; by night, he gambles obsessively on sports, ponies and at the gaming tables. His girlfriend, Belinda (Driver), a clerk at the same branch, has to struggle to reconcile their romance. Indulged by the management of the bank which flatters itself for having found its own wunderkind, nurtured by the Atlantic City casino manager who sees the banker as a meal ticket to Vegas, Mahowny finds himself in a gambler’s paradox -- playing with increasing odds in order to win back the limitless funds which are his to take as long as he doesn’t get caught. Based on the non-fiction book by Gary Ross Stung: The Incredible Obsession of Brian Molony -- about the largest one-man bank fraud in Canadian history.

Awards: 2003: Genie Awards (Canada): 4 nominations

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Owning Mahowny

2003

Richard Kwietniowski

6.5

(204)