The Music of Chance is a 1993 American drama film directed by Philip Haas. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. It is based on the book of the same name. Jim Nashe worked as a fireman, but a large inheritance and a divorce from his wife has left him free to buy a new car and see the country at his leisure. He picks up a hitchhiker, Jack Pozzi, who turns out to be a professional gambler. Pozzi tells how he just lost $10,000 to a pair of eccentric old millionaires in a poker game, simply through a bad stroke of luck. With money and time to spare,... the intrigued Nashe offers to back Pozzi with $10,000 for a rematch. The wealthy men, Flower and Stone, live together on a huge estate. They willingly agree to another game, but are not the suckers Pozzi takes them for. They win again. Nashe puts up his car as collateral against the cash if Flower and Stone will cut cards, winner take all. Nashe loses. No clear alternative exists except to work off the debt. The quirky Flower and Stone have a pile of 10,000 heavy stones, said to be from a 15th Century castle originally.
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| Release date: | June 4, 1993 |
| Directed by: | Philip Haas |
| Runtime: | 98 Minutes |
| Producer: | Paul Colichman, Frederick M. Zollo, Dylan Sellers |
| Editor: | Belinda Haas |
| Music by: | Phillip Johnston |
| Cinematography: | Bernard Zitzermann, Jean de Segonzac |
| Screenplay by: | Philip Haas, Belinda Haas |
| Adapted from: | The Music of Chance |