They are a novelist who struggles to write her follow-up book, a former stage magician and an older brother of a college basketball star.

The film was directed by Mark Rydell, and stars Forest Whitaker, Nick Cannon, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, Kelsey Grammer, Tim Roth, Carla Gugino, Jay Mohr, and Ray Liotta.

Carolyn Carver is a published author whose husband and daughter believe she is working on a new book, when in fact she is gambling away their life savings.

Clyde Snow, meanwhile, is deeply in debt to gamblers, to the extent that he must ask his younger brother Godfrey, a college basketball star, to shave points at games.

A crippled detective named Brunner is investigating a murder that Victor's thugs no doubt committed, possibly on Ivan's orders.

The website's critical consensus reads, "Even Money is so obsessed with portraying the ills of gambling it forgets to develop compelling or likable characters.