
Dan Mahowny (Philip Seymour Hoffman) was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four, he was Assistant Manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues, he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was astute, decisive, and helpful. To his friends, he was a quiet, but humorous man who enjoyed watching sports on television. To his girlfriend, he was shy but engaging. None of them knew the other side of Dan Mahow... (Full plot summary below)
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Dan Mahowny (Philip Seymour Hoffman) was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four, he was Assistant Manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues, he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was astute, decisive, and helpful. To his friends, he was a quiet, but humorous man who enjoyed watching sports on television. To his girlfriend, he was shy but engaging. None of them knew the other side of Dan Mahowny, the side that executed the largest single-handed bank fraud in Canadian history, grossing over ten million dollars in eighteen months to feed his gambling obsession.
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThere have been many good movies about gambling, but never one that so single-mindedly shows the gambler at his task. |
| TV GuideMaitland McDonaghIronically, it's most engaging when the focus shifts to Hurt's matter-of-factly amoral enabler, whose glistening suits and jewel-colored shirt-and-tie combinations suggest a particularly poisonous tropical reptile. |
| Film Freak CentralWalter ChawThe film's title is not so much in reference to the addiction that claimed a man as it is a warning and an invitation to embrace a collective shadow. |
| Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittIn the acting department, there's nobody on the current scene with more sheer talent --- or offbeat charisma -- than Philip Seymour Hoffman, in whose bearish body nestles the heart of a lithe and limber artist. |
| Blunt ReviewEmily BluntPhilip Seymour Hoffman is like a stack of pure Inca gold in the world of thespian addicts - a world I dwell happily in... |
| Entertainment TodayBrent SimonMahowny's concurrent embrace and rebuff of the course of thought behind his behavior -- all played out in Hoffman's conflicted eyes -- make for an arresting portrait of psychological bifurcation, the lies we're able to sell ourselves to keep us mentally a |
| Ebert & RoeperRichard RoeperOwning Mahowny is one of the better character studies of the year. |
| Internet ReviewsSteve RhodesRarely has addiction been so addictive to watch and yet so sad and frightening. |
| Hollywood BitchslapJames E. LaczkowskiA great true story character study that affirms Hoffman as a true talent. There are tense scenes in the film that are carried only by bank jargon and the mesmerizing exploration of compulsive gambling. |
| Shadows on the WallRich ClineAtmospheric and never flashy, and yet capable of moments of unbearable tension and an almost overpowering sense of paranoia. |