Finder's Fee

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Finder's Fee ★★ 2001 (R)

A basic psychothriller set primarily in a New York apartment. Tepper (Palladino) finds a wallet in the street and contacts the owner, Avery Phillips (Jones). Later, Tepper also discovers a lottery ticket worth $6 mil inside the wallet and spills the news to his poker buddy, Fishman (Lillard), who can't keep the news from the other guys—Quigley (Reynolds) and Bolan (Mihok). Then, Avery shows up and sits in on the game, suposedly unaware of his potential good fortune. Now, does Tepper keep the ticket? And will his buddies also keep quiet? 99m/C VHS, DVD . Erik Palladino, James Earl Jones, Matthew Lillard, Ryan Reynolds, Dash Mihok, Carly Pope, Robert Forster, Frances Bay; D: Jeff Probst; W: Jeff Probst; C: Francis Kenny; M: B.C. Smith.