[drama/comedy] Saint John of Las Vegas

Saint John of Las Vegas

An ex-gambler is lured back into the game by a veteran insurance-fraud investigator.

This movie is making the festival rounds right now, but unlike a lot of over-hyped festival fodder,it is genuinely a good movie, which I suspect will soon become more widely available. It reminded me somewhat of the Coen brother’s film “O Brother Where Art Thou?”–not in that it is in any way unoriginal–but it has a similarly surreal, absurdist sense of humor, and like the Coen brother’s film, it is a modern adaptation of a classic work of literature, in this case “Dante’s Inferno”.
The great Steve Buscemi plays “John Alegheri” (as in Dante Alegheri), a reformed compulsive gambler with a comfortable, if mundane, life living in a tract home and working for an insurance agency. But after he asks his diminutive boss (Peter Dinklage) for a raise, he suddenly finds himself promoted to fraud and, along with a partner named “Virgil” (Romany Malco), is sent on a fraud investigation, which proves to be a metaphoric descent into hell–and in particular, his own personal version of hell since the investigation takes place in and around Las Vegas, a city where he had some unpleasant personal history.

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