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Owning Mahowny. Owning Mahowny is a 2003 Canadian film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Maury Chaykin and John Hurt. The film is based on the true story of Brian Molony, a Toronto bank employee who embezzled more than $10 million to feed his gambling addiction. Owning Mahowny was named one of the ten best films of the year by ...
May 2, 2003 · Crime, Drama, Thriller. R. 1h 44m. By Elvis Mitchell. May 2, 2003. Losing millions of dollars doesn't seem like much of a turn-on for Dan Mahowny (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the obsessive gambler ...
- Richard Kwietniowski
May 16, 2003 · The film is based on the true story of a Toronto bank vice president who began by stealing exactly as much as he needed to clear his debts at the track ($10,300) and ended by taking his bank for $10.2 million. So intent is he on this process that he rarely raises his voice, or his eyes, from the task at hand.
Mar 17, 2014 · With his anonymous clothes, big glasses, and shabby car, this nerdy guy looks even plainer than his plain-looking girlfriend. However, as told in the opening scene, Mahowny has a secret problem he has managed to hide from others. He is an addicted gambler, and he must take care of his large debt to his bookie Frank Perlin (Maury Chaykin) right now.
Owning Mahowny: Directed by Richard Kwietniowski. With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, John Hurt, Maury Chaykin. A bank manager with: (a) a gambling problem and (b) access to a multimillion dollar account gets into a messy situation.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Richard Kwietniowski
- 2003-09-25
May 1, 2003 · Owning Mahowny is, a little like its titular protagonist, unremarkable at first glance, maybe a little drab, but possessed of vertiginous depths and a dizzying number of revealing avenues for contemplation. The film’s title is not so much in reference to the addiction that claimed a man as it is a warning and an invitation to embrace a collective shadow.
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May 2, 2003 · Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was astute, decisive and helpful. To his friends, he was a quiet, but humorous man who enjoyed watching sports on television. To his girlfriend, he was shy but ...
