The job is that of a croupier at the Golden Lion casino. The father tells the son about a job in England. As he struggles in his home in South Africa to come up with a name for his upcoming pulp fiction, he gets a call from his father, who is a small-time swindler. Let’s get to the bottom of it, shall we? SPOILERS AHEAD.Īll Jack Manfred ever wanted to be is a writer, but he is wasting his talent pursuing petty soccer stories. The ending is a masterstroke that gives the film an edge, and it rises above the average neo-noir thriller. 1997’s ‘Bent’ is good, but ‘Croupier’ was the one film that put Clive Owen on the map, thanks to his stellar performance in the titular role. Broken up into ten chapters, a prologue, and an epilogue, the narrative follows Jack Manfred, an aspiring writer and a dealer in a casino, who is also Jake, the protagonist of his literary fiction.
