The read
Every source lands within 8 points of the others, across 1,800 audience votes. Scores higher than 81% of the 1,024 1990s action movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game beginning in a few days. He joins forces with a woman with a marvelous Southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
Rotten Tomatoes67%
Metacritic62/100
1,840 audience votes
Key crew
- Randy NewmanOriginal Music Composer
- Richard DonnerDirector
- William GoldmanWriter
Cast
- Mel GibsonBret Maverick
- Jodie FosterAnnabelle Bransford
- James GarnerMarshal Zane Cooper
- Graham GreeneJoseph
- Alfred MolinaAngel
- James CoburnCommodore Duvall
- Dub TaylorRoom Clerk
- Geoffrey LewisMatthew Wicker / Eugene, Banker
- Paul L. SmithThe Archduke
- Dan HedayaTwitchy, Riverboat Poker Player
- Dennis FimpleStuttering
- Denver PyleOld Gambler on Riverboat
Stills
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Themes
shipsaloonpokermississippi rivernative americanoregon, usacon artiststeamboaton the runattempted robberyprofessional gambleramerican frontier
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