- Bookies (film)
Infobox Film
name = Bookies
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director =Mark Illsley
producer =
writer =Michael Bacall
starring =Nick Stahl
Lukas Haas
Johnny Galecki
Rachael Leigh Cook
distributor =
released = flagicon|USA2003
runtime = 88 min.
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0302361"Bookies" is a 2003 movie written by
Michael Bacall and directed byMark Illsley . The story revolves around the lives of four college students. It was not well received by audiences, but it is nevertheless played in the early morning on network television in the US with little regularity.Plot
Three male college students, Toby (
Nick Stahl ), Casey (Lukas Haas ) and Jude (Johnny Galecki ), start up a bookie business taking bets from various clients. Their business immediately booms, arousing suspicion among local campus authorities and Toby's girlfriend, Hunter (Rachael Leigh Cook ).They subsequently are able to purchase many expensive items such as big screen televisions and new computers to help them manage their complex business. When their business takes off, Jude receives threats from two local Italian bookies to back down because their territories for the business overlap.
The movie ends when a plan by Jude fails to materialize when betting on the college's team to win the game. Toby devises a way to eliminate the threat from the other bookies and get them out of the business by liquidating their assets and betting all of their earnings on one boxing match. The underdog on which they placed the bet won. Some money went to pay off the bookies, and the remaining spoils were divided amongst the three.
Jude drops out of school and Toby says that "he wasn't first genius to flunk out of college." Casey changes his major at the college, gets new friends, and doesn't see Toby much. Toby continues at college and uses his money to get through grad school. He plays Hunter in a
foosball match to win another chance with her after having lost her love through the ordeal.External links
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