Reviewed by Christy Karras
(from 2011 Seattle International Film Festival)
Directed by: Bryan Storkel
Featuring: Ben Crawford and Colin Jones
Given that relationships founded on money tend to go awry when folks get greedy, you wouldn’t expect a bunch of card-counting gamblers to form an alliance in the first place, much less gather managers and investors to unite as a year-round professional team. But what if this moneymaking enterprise was held together by another kind of relationship, a bond so pervasive it colors everything group members do?
That’s the question behind “Holy Rollers,” a slick, energetic documentary about a group of card counters united by their common Christian faith, which not only exists but thrives and earns the participants millions of dollars.
Christians gambling? Doesn’t the Bible have something to say about the love of money? This paradox is amplified by the card counters themselves who profess their devotion to the church,...
(from 2011 Seattle International Film Festival)
Directed by: Bryan Storkel
Featuring: Ben Crawford and Colin Jones
Given that relationships founded on money tend to go awry when folks get greedy, you wouldn’t expect a bunch of card-counting gamblers to form an alliance in the first place, much less gather managers and investors to unite as a year-round professional team. But what if this moneymaking enterprise was held together by another kind of relationship, a bond so pervasive it colors everything group members do?
That’s the question behind “Holy Rollers,” a slick, energetic documentary about a group of card counters united by their common Christian faith, which not only exists but thrives and earns the participants millions of dollars.
Christians gambling? Doesn’t the Bible have something to say about the love of money? This paradox is amplified by the card counters themselves who profess their devotion to the church,...
- 6/14/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Christy Karras
(from 2011 Seattle International Film Festival)
Directed by: Bryan Storkel
Featuring: Ben Crawford and Colin Jones
Given that relationships founded on money tend to go awry when folks get greedy, you wouldn’t expect a bunch of card-counting gamblers to form an alliance in the first place, much less gather managers and investors to unite as a year-round professional team. But what if this moneymaking enterprise was held together by another kind of relationship, a bond so pervasive it colors everything group members do?
That’s the question behind “Holy Rollers,” a slick, energetic documentary about a group of card counters united by their common Christian faith, which not only exists but thrives and earns the participants millions of dollars.
Christians gambling? Doesn’t the Bible have something to say about the love of money? This paradox is amplified by the card counters themselves who profess their devotion to the church,...
(from 2011 Seattle International Film Festival)
Directed by: Bryan Storkel
Featuring: Ben Crawford and Colin Jones
Given that relationships founded on money tend to go awry when folks get greedy, you wouldn’t expect a bunch of card-counting gamblers to form an alliance in the first place, much less gather managers and investors to unite as a year-round professional team. But what if this moneymaking enterprise was held together by another kind of relationship, a bond so pervasive it colors everything group members do?
That’s the question behind “Holy Rollers,” a slick, energetic documentary about a group of card counters united by their common Christian faith, which not only exists but thrives and earns the participants millions of dollars.
Christians gambling? Doesn’t the Bible have something to say about the love of money? This paradox is amplified by the card counters themselves who profess their devotion to the church,...
- 6/14/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
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