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      <div align="center"><font size="6">Owning Mahowny</font></div>
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      <p>Philip Seymour Hoffman is blazing a trail through movies. When looking 
        at whole body of work, Hoffman appears to be an incredible actor. He takes 
        a wide variety of disparate roles, and sinks himself into each one. However, 
        when looking at movies individually, a different picture appears. Hoffman's 
        roles tend to be very one-dimensional. This is not to say that he fares 
        poorly, it's just that watching one movie doesn't do justice to his acting 
        ability and range. Recent examples have him as high (<i><a href="love_liza.html">Love 
        Liza</a></i>), psychotic (<a href="punch-drunk_love.html"><i>Punch-Drunk 
        Love</i></a>), introverted (<a href="25th_hour.html"><i>The 25th Hour</i></a>)<i> 
        </i>or annoying (<i><a href="red_dragon.html">Red Dragon</a></i>). <i>Owning 
        Mahowny</i> is a one-note performance, although that note is strong. Hoffman 
        is Dan Mahowny, compulsive gambler. <i>Owning Mahowny</i> is based on 
        the novel by Gary Stephen Ross, which is based on a true story that took 
        place in Canada in the 1980s.</p>
      <p>Mahowny works for a bank, and discovers that by writing fake loans, he 
        can get extra money to put up for bets or to pay back losses. Bookie Frank 
        Perlin (Maury Chaykin, <i><a href="bartleby.html">Bartleby</a></i>, <i><a href="art_of_war.html">The 
        Art of War</a></i>) indirectly starts Mahowny's incredible journey by 
        refusing to take his bets anymore at the local horse track. Mahowny owes 
        Perlin a large sum of money, and Perlin doesn't believe he has the money 
        to pay him back. To feed his addiction, Mahowny flies out to Atlantic 
        City, where he literally spends the entire weekend gambling. Weekend trips 
        become the norm, with Mahowny winning and losing huge amounts of money, 
        backed by fake loans. He is borrowing money from inactive and/or large 
        bank accounts, to avoid detection from his superiors.</p>
      <p>As the film progresses, Mahowny's addiction becomes worse. He neglects 
        his girlfriend Belinda (Minnie Driver, <i><a href="beautiful.html">Beautiful</a></i>, 
        <i><a href="high_heels_and_low_lifes.html">High Heels and Low Lifes</a></i>), 
        and catches the attention of casino owner Victor Foss (John Hurt, <i><a href="captain_corellis_mandolin.html">Captain 
        Corelli's Mandolin</a></i>, <i><a href="harry_potter.html">Harry Potter 
        and the Sorcerer's Stone</a></i>). He cannot figure out who Mahowny is, 
        but believes him to be some rich high roller. Hurt serves as a sort of 
        comic relief to the film. He tries as hard as he can to throw every conceivable 
        temptation at Mahowny, who ignores food, sex, and shows for the joy of 
        gambling. </p>
      <p>Otherwise, there is not much to <i>Owning Mahowny</i>. Mahowny grows 
        more brazen as he is able to get away with more, and eventually his shenanigans 
        led to the largest bank case in Canadian history. Director Richard Kwietniowski 
        (<i>Love and Death on Long Island</i>, <i>Actions Speak Louder Than Words</i>) 
        and adapter Maurice Chauvet have Mahowny steadily spiral downward, oblivious 
        to everything else in his life. In a sense, the film is somewhat dull, 
        because there is not enough for the viewer to grasp onto. This can be 
        a very dark film, and there is no redemption in sight for Mahowny. But 
        for Hoffman, it's another job well done. Now he needs to find a role where 
        he can do more than one thing at once.</p>
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    <td colspan="3">Mongoose Rates It: Okay.</td>
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    <td colspan="3"><i>1 hour, 47 minutes, Rated R for language and some sexuality.</i></td>
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