Steven Weber (never a good way to start a sentence, or a movie) is the Larry david character here, who gives his cousin (Craig Bierko) two quarters while at an Atlantic City casino, only to watch in horror as Bierko wins nearly half a million dollars, and subsequently refuses to split the winnings equally. This leads to increasingly "dark" and improbable complications as the two unleash their hostility upon each other's lives. Despite some familiar elements from David's TV work, this is the work of a complete hack when it comes to film. Bad acting, lame writing, mediocre direction, and stupidly smug scoring add up to a viewing experience as insufferable as anything I've ever seen. Larry David's a genius, but I guess even a genius gets it entirely wrong sometimes, like Dave Chappelle did with Half Baked and John Lennon did with that tampon-on-the-forehead gag.
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