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It’s Christmastime in Reno, where a world-weary gambler (Philip Baker Hall) teaches the tricks of the trade to a luckless young man (John C. Reilly). The debut feature of writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson took a year to hit theaters — by which time Anderson was in production on BOOGIE NIGHTS, further cementing Hall and Reilly as Anderson mainstays.