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Wild Card

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2015 film directed by Simon West

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5.7

When a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal skills and a gambling problem gets in trouble with the mob, he has one last play… and it's all or nothing.

Released: 2015-01-1492 minDir: Simon WestThriller, Crime, ActionBudget: $30.0MBox office: $6.7M

Cast

  • Jason Statham as Nick Wild
  • Michael Angarano as Cyrus Kinnick
  • Dominik Garcia as Holly
  • Milo Ventimiglia as Danny DeMarco
  • Hope Davis as Cassandra
  • Max Casella as Osgood

Themes

  • gambling
  • bodyguard
  • remake
  • las vegas

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Ratings

IMDb

5.6/10

64,182 votes

Rotten Tomatoes

30%

Metacritic

40/100

Year
2015
Runtime
92 min
Genres
Action, Crime, Drama
Rated
R

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Key facts

Directed by
Simon West
Screenplay by
William Goldman
Based on
Heat , by William Goldman
Produced by
Steve Chasman
Starring
Jason Statham Michael Angarano Milo Ventimiglia Dominik Garcia-Lorido Anne Heche Sofia Vergara Max Casella Jason Alexander Hope Davis Stanley Tucci
Cinematography
Shelly Johnson
Edited by
Padraic McKinley
Music by
Dario Marianelli
Production companies
Current Entertainment Quad Films SJ Pictures Sierra/Affinity
Distributed by
Lionsgate
Release dates
January 14, 2015 ( 2015-01-14 ) (France) January 30, 2015 ( 2015-01-30 ) (United States)
Running time
102 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$30 million
Box office
$6.7 million

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Encyclopedic overview

Wild Card is a 2015 American action thriller film directed by Simon West and starring Jason Statham, Michael Angarano, Milo Ventimiglia, Dominik Garcia-Lorido, Anne Heche, and Sofia Vergara. Based on the 1985 novel Heat by William Goldman, it is a remake of the 1986 adaptation that starred Burt Reynolds. The film was released in the United States on January 30, 2015 in a limited release and through video on demand.

Wild Card received negative reviews and was a box-office bomb, making only $6.7 million worldwide against a $30 million budget.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wild Card” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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