The hero, Huck Cheever (Bana), is not a beginner — he's a talented Las Vegas poker brat, the son of a champion, L. C. Cheever (Duvall) — but he's a mess emotionally, and long stretches of the plot are devoted to how this hotshot keeps winning the ten grand needed to enter the series only to throw it away.
The hero, Huck Cheever (Bana), is not a beginner he's a talented Las Vegas poker brat, the son of a champion, L. C. Cheever Duvalll)—but he's a mess emotionally, and long stretches of the plot are devoted to how this hotshot keeps winning the ten grand needed to enter the series only to throw it away.
Focusing on appearance will cause your spouse to wonder why you find this aspect more important than your spouse's well-being and it can cause emotionally scarring, long-lasting friction in your relationship.
It's nearly nine minutes long, emotionally vulnerable and incredibly bittersweet.
That's basically it, but each episode intensifies, emotionally, suggesting the long arc of a story that's just beginning.
The two had a long, emotionally draining (for her) affair that lasted through two of Brando's marriages.
As the plot strands are hastily tied up, you feel only frustration at being denied the pleasure of a long, emotionally rich denouement.
Orme belonged emotionally, and by long association, with the left, but he was a possibilist, a former minister who had struggled with problems.
Yet, in my immaturity, in my naïveté and idiocy, I'd pledged a sorority, and for this impulsive act I would pay, financially and emotionally, for a long time.
