Didn’t catch Mike Hodges’ latest movie when it was first released in June ’99? That’s probably because it received a minimal release which unfortunately coincided with a reissue of the director’s attention-snatching crime classic Get Carter. Video store obscurity appeared certain, and it looked as if Croupier would suffer the same fate as fellow Hodges movies Black Rainbow and Florida Straits (never heard of ’em? Exactly). But then the unthinkable happened: it came out in the States and became a sleeper hit.
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