The Grand

Jun 7, 2007

1h 44m

★ 5.8

A comedy about the fine art of losing.

Overview

The Grand is in the tradition of improvisational comedies like Best In Show and This Is Spinal Tap. The story is set in the world of professional poker and follows six players who reach the final table of the world’s second most famous high stakes tournament, the Grand Championship of Poker.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Insomnia Media Group

IMG Film 7

Eleven Eleven Films

The Grand Trailers

Cast

One Eyed Jack Faro

Woody Harrelson

The German

Werner Herzog

L.B.J. Deuce Fairbanks

Dennis Farina

Larry Schwartzman

David Cross

Lainie Schwartzman

Cheryl Hines

Andy Andrews

Richard Kind

Harold Melvin

Chris Parnell

Dr. Yakov Achmed

Jason Alexander

Fred Marsh

Ray Romano

Reggie Marshall

Mike Epps

Sharon Andrews

Judy Greer

Seth Schwartzman

Gabe Kaplan

What is the connection between the bloody gang war that once raged over control of the Chicago fish market, the decades of terror perpetrated by the Chinese, Russian, and Italian mafias, the secret operations of the CIA and the KGB, the Cuban revolution, and the Kennedy assassination? And who is the 100-year-old monk who is revered as a saint in a Nepalese monastery and in whose body the presence of a strange crystal can be detected? Szilveszter Siklósi's thrilling "documentary" provides striking and convincing answers to questions that have preoccupied the world's public for nearly a generation.

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