The Cooler

Certificate: 15
Release date: 2004-06-18
Duration: 102mins
Director: Wayne Kramer
Cast: William H Macy, Alec Baldwin, Maria Bello
Year: 2003
Country: US

There's no better setting than Las Vegas to tell the story of a loser made good, and in Hollywood no one plays a loser better than William H Macy (Jurassic Park III). In Wayne Kramer's The Cooler he rolls the dice in a game of love, but the gamble lands him in more trouble than he bargained for. A pleasingly old-fashioned Vegas fairytale, it lends a sobering, contemporary edge to well-worn clichis.