The Gin Game

The Gin Game

6.6IMDb Score
Released:2003-04-07
Duration:90 min
Director:Arvin Brown
Actors:Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, Annie Abbott, Sheila Rogers, Alessandro Mastrobuono
Production:PBS Hollywood

Overview:

This powerfully bittersweet comedy follows the relationship that develops between nursing home residents Fonsia (Mary Tyler Moore) and Weller (Dick Van Dyke) during a series of gin games in which their ailments, misfortunes and losses are exposed in funny, honest and increasingly heated moments.

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