Double Down (film)

{{short description|2001 film by Mars Callahan}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox film | name = Double Down | image = Double Down (film).jpg | caption = | director = Mars Callahan | producer = Andrew Molina Byron Werner | writer = Mars Callahan Doug Klein | narrator = Kane Picoy | starring = Jason Priestley Alicia Coppola Mars Callahan Jeremy Blackman Dinah Manoff Richard Portnow David Proval Peter Dobson Karen Dior Kane Picoy Justin Jon Ross | music = Micha Liberman S. Unger

| cinematography = Christopher C. Pearson | editing = Michael Chaskes | distributor = Lions Gate | released = {{Film date|2001}} | runtime = 93 minutes | country = United States | language = English | budget = | gross = }}

'''''Double Down'''''<ref name=NYT>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/246499/Double-Down/overview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307041204/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/246499/Double-Down/overview|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-03-07|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=The New York Times|author=Jason Buchanan|date=2016|title=Double Down}}</ref> (original titled '''''Zigs''''') is a 2001 American drama film directed by Mars Callahan, and starring Jason Priestley,<ref name=NYT/> Peter Dobson and Richard Portnow. It received an R rating by the MPAA.<ref name=NYT/><ref>{{cite web|author=Pardi, Robert|title=Double Down|work=TV Guide|url=http://www.tvguide.com/movies/double-down/review/135896/}}</ref>

==Plot== Four young compulsive gamblers waste their lives on booze, broads and bookies. David (Jason Priestley), the heavy-drinking ladies man. Mike (Kane Picoy), a degenerate gambler. Cory the Jersey Jinx (Peter Dobson). Brett (Justin Jon Ross), the guy who tells every girl he loves her on the first date. When they find themselves in debt to a psychotic Christopher Walken obsessed hit man (Mars Callahan) they come up with a radical plan to get out of debt with a fixed game.

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== External links == *{{IMDb title|0173498}} * {{Rotten Tomatoes| m/double_down_2001 | Double Down}}

Category:2001 crime drama films Category:2001 thriller films Category:2001 American films Category:2001 English-language films Category:American crime drama films Category:American films about gambling Category:American thriller films Category:Films directed by Mars Callahan Category:Trimark Pictures films Category:English-language crime drama films Category:English-language thriller films