Owning Mahowny is a 2003 movie about gambling addiction with a cast that includes Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Maury Chaykin and John Hurt. In 1982, a Toronto bank employee Dan Mahowny is given access to bigger and bigger accounts with his promotion to assistant branch manager. His boss trusts him, but what he doesn't know is Mahowny is a compulsive gambler. And soon he's skimming larger and larger amounts for his own use and making weekly trips to Atlantic City, where he's treated more like a king by a greedy casino manager with every additional thousand he lays down on the... table. Meanwhile, his girlfriend, fellow bank employee Belinda , can't understand what's happening, and the wheels go into motion at the bank when the first missing amount is uncovered. The movie's focus is on Mahowny as a character—how his compulsion drives him and all the domino effects it has on the rest of his life.
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| Release date: | January 23, 2003 |
| Directed by: | Richard Kwietniowski |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 104 Minutes |
| Producer: | Andras Hamori, Seaton McLean, Alessandro Camon |
| Editor: | Mike Munn |
| Music by: | Startled Insects, Richard Grassby-Lewis, Jon Hassell, Bob Locke, Tim Norfolk, The Insects |
| Cinematography: | Oliver Curtis |
| Screenplay by: | Maurice Chauvet |
| Estimated budget: | $10,000,000 |
| Adapted from: | Stung |
| Genre: | Thriller, Biography |