Marquee Status For MVD Entertainment Group's Blu-ray And DVD Release Of Director Mark Rydell's Even Money On Apr. 14

First time on Blu-ray is the news from MVD Entertainment Group this week!!

Indeed, not only is director Mark Rydell’s twist-and-turn gambling addiction thriller, Even Money, arriving on Blu-ray for the first time on Apr. 12, but it is also MVD’s latest addition to its popular “Marquee Collection” promotional line.

We have Carolyn Carver, played by Kim Basinger, who is a writer with a problem.   No, it is not a case of writer’s block, but gambling, she’s addicted to gambling and it is destroying not only her career, but her marriage.  

At the place of her “worship,” we meet Walter (Danny Devito), who is also a casino junkie … a once promising magician who now entertains slot players with his slight of hand magic tricks.   He is a sad, sad case.   

And then there is Clyde Snow (Forest Whitaker), another gambler, who owes Augie (Jay Mohr) so much money from his bad bets on sports that things could turn violent.   No, make that, things WILL turn violent unless a solution can be found.

Filmmaker Mark Rydell (Oscar-nominated for On Golden Pond, plus such films as The Reivers, Cinderella Liberty, The Rose, For the Boys) introduces us to these three helpless gamblers.  Yes, they are upright and walking, but they are sick and on a path to destruction of their own making.

Their lives are intertwined and their actions bring into their circle of addiction even more.   Clyde has a solution to his problem, his college basketball star nephew, Godfrey (Nick Cannon — Drumline, The Killing Room), is a star player … he just needs him to shave a few points here and there and all will be right.

Victor (Tim Roth) is a vicious thug who keeps crossing Augie’s path.   Brunner (Kelsey Grammer), meanwhile, is a washed-up detective who is shadowing Victor, he knows that he is a killer, he just has to prove it.

Gamblers, bookies, killers, cops … it all comes together in Even Money.  Heck, there’s even an unseen criminal mastermind by the name of Ivan (a twist ending reveals his identity).    In the final act there will be blood … lots of it.