It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler. While there, he breaks the bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by George Cole, and falls in love with two women, one of them Cole's wife.
The Big Town has generally received mixed reviews.
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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 14 Feb 1988
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The Big Town was released in 1987 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 11 reviews, giving The Big Town (1987) an average rating of 54%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 75%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 62%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with The Big Town than critics were.
With a score of 54%, The Big Town is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1987, which stands at 57%.
Other movies from 1987 with similar scores include films like Creepshow 2 and Possession.
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