Matt Damon plays a law student whose poker skills create a dilemma of choice between pursuing the law and the excitement of testing himself against the best in the world of underground high-stakes games. The scales are tipped toward the latter when the young man must aid a jailbird pal (Edward Norton) in debt to mobsters. Gretchen Mol, John Turturro, Famke Janssen, John Malkovich, Martin Landau.