Best Betting Scenes: In 'Owning Mahowny,' The Action Is The Juice

Brian Molony embezzled $10 million from his employer in the early 1980s. He used the money to gamble at Caesars in Atlantic City. Owning Mahowny is a 2003 film that was nominated for multiple Academy Awards. It stars Philip Seymour Hoffman as the titular character, Dan Mahowdy, Maury Chaykin as his bookie, and John Hurt as casino's predatory general manager.

Dan Mahowny is a drug addict who bets on sports. He is in the middle of expanding his illicit bankroll. The bookie is trying to convince him to give him all the Major League Baseball games on tap that night. The brass railing in his bank's stairwell turns into a roulette wheel.

In the movie Heat, Robert De Niro's character, Michael Cerrito, refuses to kill to get a last score. In Owning Mahowny, Tom Sizemore's Mahoweny is a gambling addict who refuses the help of an investigator to keep his gambling habit. The investigator is dismissed. On the other hand, the casino boss, Victor Foss, doesn't care where Mahaweny's money comes from, as long as it ends up in his betting cage. In the film, Mahoway is offered VIP treatment, but he's too busy gambling to take it. Caesars became the first Atlantic City property to be shut down for a full day because of its laissez faire attitude toward Mahowe's finances.