The Cooler

The Cooler (2003, USA) by Wayne Kramer Main Cast: Alec Baldwin; William H. Macy; Company: Content Film The movie tells the story of Bernie Lootz, who is a ”cooler” in a casino. With his bad karma he calms the winning tables down. The casino boss, Shelly, wants to keep his valuable employee and hires the waitress Natalie to pretend to fall in love with Bernie. The “job” becomes real love and Bernie looses his bad karma: From now on every table he passes by wins. Scene: gambling mixed adults cards table games machines Transgressive 00:02:14-00:03:41: gambling In this scene at the very beginning of the movie we can see Bernie doing his “job”. He passes around tables, where people were winning before. As soon as Bernie only touches the table the winning streak is over. It is rather unlikely that someone will consider the gambling in this scene as addictive – the camera only stays very short time at one gambling table and basically follows Bernie through the casino. Interesting remark: The gamblers at the tables are normally only shown with their face, whereas the gamblers at the slot machine are only shown with their body, but without their head. Clip: 13