Lilly works for a bookie, placing bets to change the odds at the track. When her son is hospitalized after an unsuccessful con job and resultant beating, she finds that even an absentee parent has feelings for her child. This causes her own job to go wrong as well. Each of them faces the downside of the grift.
Same basic idea as The Sting but with a different plot. They even use the main con from The Sting early in the movie. Decent until last two minutes. Worst ending ever.
This film has been totally forgotten about it seems.
I found it in the cheap section of my local video shop.
Its fun and quirky
Frear's Neo noir with a lot of big swings, interesting mixture of late eighties and post war style.
