DVD Review " OWNING WALTER MAHONEY" Score C+ 76%

An interesting little independent movie that is based on true events, Phillip Seymour Hoffman plays a bank finance manager with a huge gambling problem. He creates false loans at his bank and then proceeds to withdrawal the cash and gamble in Atlantic City. Then eventually after loosing so much he becomes a “Whale” that the casino caters too, with comps and ribs that are cooked, thrown away and re-cooked until he is ready for them. They give a bellboy the job of being his personal concierge, all the time never questioning where the money he gambles and loses is coming form. Eventually the losses get bigger and bigger as does the embezzlement. He goes off to Las Vegas where he looses more and more… including his girlfriend. The IRS catches up and he is ultimately busted in a huge sting of multiple police units. It’s a good movie that is an interesting study of gambling addition.