Win It All

Well acted, well structured, and for the most part an addicting watch. The whole AND EVERYBODY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER ending seemed like a budget constraint problem considering how well the rest of the movie was written.

THE GAMBLER--presented by Hallmark.

Funny, touching, and at times, successfully tense. Swanberg continues to make indies that don't necessarily bust open the mold but hit all their beats so well.

Win It All does a lot. It tells a great comedic story that is tight and without too much fluff. The romance between Johnson and the woman who he falls in love with is sweet. I like a lot of the cast in this movie. Joe Lo Truglio is great and I love him in almost anything he does. It is good seeing him in a more serious role. The script is great. All of the characters talk and act like real people. I can tell that this movie is an indie movie but it doesn't hit you over the head with that fact.

swanberg'in yükseklerinden. özellikle tanıdık isimlerin art arda sıralandığı başıboş sürüklemecelerden sonra ortada izlenecek bir şey olması önceki bir iki parıldayan işi düşünülünce hala iyi şeyler çıkarabileceğinin bir göstergesi. ama oyun karakterleri gibi tiplere rağmen sosyallik üzerine kurulu anlayış, bir şekilde gedikleri anlamlandıracak güçte olmayan mevzuyla beraber hayli *meh* oluyor. günlük yaşam tamam ama yüzeysellik...

It's obviously not going to be an apt representation of being a gambling addict or anything but Johnson has great presence and KMK is funny

Maybe Swanberg's best (and he's usually pretty solid), thanks in large part to an excellent performance from Johnson, who never allows this character to be annoying/detestable, which Eddie cold have easily been. I already loved Joe Lo Truglio, but was great to see him play a sort of older brother everyman.

When a gambler's shitty life gets worse after spending a prisoner's money, all he must do is finally become an adult — falls for the right girl, accepts working for his brother (who owns a lawn cutting firm), stops gambling. And then the criminal is getting out sooner and he desperately needs money and has to gamble again. So affective and straightforward and fun, even if the romance never clicks. Delicious dialogue. Good flick about the ups and downs, high stakes life.

I've realized I have an uninhibited love for gambling films. The inherent sadness, despair, and doomed romance of these films plays right up my alley, and Jake Johnson nails the aforementioned traits perfectly.

At the start of the film the scripts feels like it is going to be predictable but it changes for the better. The cast does a good job in this movie. Overall I would recommend this film.

bad movie

Really lovely gambling movie, a topic which I didn't quite expect from Joe Swanberg. I like how it manages to be suspenseful without resorting to any of the exhibitionist violence or tough guy characterizations you'd find in crime movies. It's not about the terror, really, on the contrary, it has a certain softness to it for a movie about luck. Perhaps it's about undeservedly beating the odds even if you've made the worst bets in life.

So after a decade-plus Swanberg makes his first good film. And it seems so easy. He juggles different tones in a breezy way, envisions a slice of life that is genuinely romantic and warns us off gambling in exchange for a normal, suburban life. In the simplicity of this cautionary aspect, it reminds me of Erick Zonca's Le petit voleur. Strange how much of life's bounty can be lost in a heartbeat.

As warm and cuddly movies about heedless degenerates go, it's not exactly losing.