Owning Mahowny

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Summary: Be Afraid of What Owns You
Review: This little film leaves behind a huge impact. It is a tale of addiction and failure that will make you think.

The ever interesting Philip Seymour Hoffman plays a stuffy bank loan manager who succumbs to the addiction of gambling. He spends weekends in casinos, hides his problem from co-workers and his girlfriend and suffers at the hands of his own actions. Hoffman is absolutely great in this role! Minnie Driver plays Hoffman's enabling and stupid girlfriend who believes in the lies more than what is before her eyes. Driver looses her savings and her life along with Hoffman in the spiral of gambling addiction and despair.

This is one of those films that seems absolutely uninteresting but is deeply embedded with messages for us all. Gambling isn't the only addiction capable of destroying a beautiful and successful life so the mistakes seen in this film can certainly apply elsewhere. Mahoney is simply whatever owns you.....beware!