The gin game
(2003)
Fiction
DVD
Call Numbers:
DVD/DRAMA/GIN
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Chatsworth, Calif. : Image Entertainment, [2003]
©2003
©2003
DESCRIPTION
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN/ISSN
6307801883 ID158KEDVD
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Originally broadcast on PBS May 4, 2003
A bittersweet comedy that follows the relationship that develops between nursing home residents Fonsia Dorsey and Weller Martin during a series of gin games. As the games progress, their ailments, misfortunes, and losses are exposed in funny, honest, and increasingly heated moments, and what begins as a tentative friendship quickly turns into a battle of wills
Based on the play by D.L. Coburn
Director of photography, John W. Simmons ; editor, Tara Timpone ; music, Mike Post ; production designer, John Iacovelli
Mary Tyler Moore, Dick Van Dyke
MPAA rating: Not rated
DVD, Region 1 encoding, Dolby digital stereo