The Gin Game (1981)
1h 23m
Running Time
April 21, 1981Release Date
Plot.
Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey, two elderly residents at a nursing home for senior citizens, strike up an acquaintance. Neither seems to have any other friends, and they start to enjoy each other's company. Weller offers to teach Fonsia how to play gin rummy, and they begin playing a series of games that Fonsia always wins. Weller's inability to win a single hand becomes increasingly frustrating to him, while Fonsia becomes increasingly confident. While playing their games of gin, they engage in lengthy conversations about their families and their lives in the outside world. Gradually, each conversation becomes a battle, much like the ongoing gin games, as each player tries to expose the other's weaknesses, to belittle the other's life, and to humiliate the other thoroughly.
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Cast & Crew.

Jessica Tandy
Fonsia Dorsey

Hume Cronyn
Weller Martin

D.L. Coburn
Theatre Play

Terry Hughes
Producer / Director

Archer King
Executive Producer

Ellen Krass
Executive Producer

Robert Dale Martin
Executive Producer

Michael Small
Music

Bill Walker
Costume Design

Mike Nichols
Stage Director
Details.
This Movie Is About.
filmed theater
theatre play
elderly
gin rummy
filmed play
stage play
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