Vegas Vacation is the 4th movie in the National Lampoon’s Vacation series. It is a 1997 American comedy film directed by Stephen Kessler. The actors are Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Wayne Newton, Randy Quaid, Wallace Shawn and Ethan Embry.
The Main Story
Clark Griswold ( Chevy Chase ) invents a long-life food preservative which earns him a large bonus check.
He decides to take the family to Las Vegas so that he and his wife Ellen ( Beverly D’Angelo ) can renew their wedding vows.
The family weren’t keen on going but go along to please their dad.
Once they arrive in Vegas, the movie goes through the family experiencing a series of misadventures. These include Clark becoming giving gambling a go, resulting in him being parted with his cash at the Blackjack table.This was long before the advent of best online casinos usa, and so ‘going to’ the casino involved just that.
While Clark is gambling, he leaves his family to their own devices until he realizes everything is out of control when he has Wayne Newton wining and dining his wife, his son Rusty has turned into a high roller, and his daughter is pole-dancing in night clubs.
Clark lands up gambling $22,600 which was the family’s savings, but luckily Ellen found $2 in her pocket which she gives to Clark and tells him to win back the money.
They head off to a Keno game and meet an old gentleman there and have a friendly chat with him. They lose their keno game, but the old guy wins but dies of a heart attack. However, before he dies, he gives Clark his ticket.
The Ending
In the end, Clark and Ellen renew their wedding vows with their winnings, and then the family leave Vegas in the four cars that Rusty had won on the slot machines. The cars were a Dodge Viper, Ford Mustang, a Hummer H1, and a Ford Aspire. This comedy caper is popular the world over, with both gamblers and non gamblers alike. So if you’re a fan of new zealand online pokies (since slots feature in the movie), or on the other side of the planet a Brit who has never had a ‘flutter’, you’re likely to get equal enjoyment out of it!
Introduction
Reindeer Games is an American thriller and stars Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, Charlize Theron and many more Hollywood stars. The title is apt because Reindeer Games is a colloquial expression generally used for a gang’s bullying activities, which is what happens to Nick when he is forced into a casino robbery by a powerful clique.
The Main Story
Recently released from prison Rudy Duncan (Ben Affleck) ’s primary goal is to start a new life with Ashley (Charlize Theron) whom he met when he assumed his cellmate’s identity through pen pal letters. The one problem that will hamper their happiness is her crazy brother Gabriel (Gary Sinise). He is convinced Rudy has inside information about a casino where he once worked, a casino Gabriel and his ruthless gang plan to rob. Winning fairly at big win casinos usa isn’t enough for them, and so a plan is hatched.
Rudy and Ashley are kidnapped by her brother and using the real information from the real Nicks prison cell stories he can devise a plan to rob the casino under duress. The plot thickens when he breaks out of his room one night and stumbles upon Gabriel and Ashley who are in actual fact lovers, not siblings. The casino is robbed, machines à sous and all. Rudy is forced to partake, and lives are lost, and Rudy’s is exposed as an impostor.
Gabriel and Ashley plan to kill Rudy by driving him off a cliff in a burning vehicle with some money, so the officials will think all the stolen money went up in flames with him. Once again, the plan does not go as planned, and Ashley shoots and kills Gabriel, and shortly after, Nick appears.
The Ending
Nick reappears having staged his own death and reveals that the two had collaborated to rob the casino using Rudy, Gabriel and his gang. They set their murderous plan in motion to kill Rudy. However, he has a knife he had gotten earlier, cuts his ties, puts the car in reverse and drives over Nicks legs crushing them. Ashley fires at him, and he drives into her, and she goes over the cliff with the burning car and does the same with Nick. The final scene sees Rudy walking along, stuffing the stolen money into mailboxes on his way home to his family.
Introduction
Win It All is a 2017 movie directed by Joe Swanberg. It’s an offbeat character-driven film about a gambler who loses $50,000 that did not belong to him. It’s firmly set in the world of bricks and mortar establishments rather than real money casinos online.
The Main Story
Win It All is about a desperate gambler Eddie Garrett (Jake Johnson) who is in a financial hole and works as a parking attendant outside Wrigley Field to support his gambling habit. It all changes when he meets Michael who asks him to keep a duffel bag for him without asking any questions while he serves out his jail time and in return he will give Jake $10 000. Eddie however, does not stick to the arrangement and opens the bag to find a large sum of cash and several odd-looking tools.
Eddie takes $500 from the bag to gamble with and manages to win money and pay the money back. He continues to gamble and starts heading into a downward spiral which sees him owing the bag in the region of $21 000. His brother Ron decides to help him out, and Eddie starts turning his life around and replacing the money he took out of the bag, and all looks rosy until he receives a call from Michael saying he is being released early and will be collecting the bag in a week.
Panicked he begs for help from Gene, and finally, Gene relents by getting Eddie into a high stakes Poker game on the condition if he goes broke he leaves town. Eddie buys in with $15000 from the bag. He loses $30 000 and panics and decides he has to run. After calming down, he decides to put the rest of the money in the game, wins a huge pot, and is back up with a profit.
The Ending
Eddie wants to continue playing, but his friend insists he cashes out, which leads to an argument. Eddie then clutches his chest, collapses and is rushed to the hospital, but not before cashing out. He is released from the hospital, and his brother drives him to Eva’s house where the movie ends with Eddie happily eating dinner with Eva and her family. It’s a high octane movies where casino games for real money get the main character in all kind of scrapes. Well worth a watch.