Those players will find the 126-page screenplay a fun trip and nostalgic read.
Indeed, though the movie received only decent reviews - it has a 54/100 on review aggregation site Metacritic - poker players everywhere have latched onto it and given it cult status. Koppelman: 'I also see all the work we put into telling the story in a language that hadn’t been used very often.' This made it harder to sell, but more distinctive, so that when someone liked it, they very likely loved it.' 'But I also see all the work we put into telling the story in a language that hadn’t been used very often.
'I read it and I see very young versions of David and me,' Koppelman wrote. On Monday, Rounders co-writer Brian Koppelman gave those poker players a late Valentine's Day present: he posted the third draft of the Rounders screenplay he and David Levien produced, on his personal blog. Most poker players have seen the movie so many times that they can recall the lines more readily than a family member's birthday. The nostalgia around the flick remains thick as ever. More than 20 years have passed, but Rounders remains, for most of this generation of poker players, the quintessential poker movie.
