Runner Runner

“The house always wins.”

Richie Furst (Justin Timberlake) is a college student who pays his tuition at online poker and loses all of it in one bad stretch. He is sure the site cheated him, so he arranges to meet its owner, Ivan Block (Ben Affleck), an offshore entrepreneur with a friendly manner. Brad Furman puts the two across from each other, Block's easy smile giving nothing away.