Rebecca DeMornay, last seen in The Shining , is co-producer with Mark Damon, and also the leading lady. Well, really, she's not much of a lady here, but she's a good bad one. Vincent D'Onofrio, who plays the Winner, and Frank Whaley, who's one of the Winner's hangers-on, both have film, TV and theater credits. The Winner, a k a Philip, gambles only on Sundays and gives most of his winnings away. Then Joey gets his sign, and he hitches his wagon to the Winner, in hopes of taking it all.
Losers take care of themselves.
But then an old guy gets whacked in his trailer house, and the whole thing gets a lot more complicated. And that's not good. What begins as quirky black comedy backed by colorful flip-side Las Vegas scenes, suddenly morphs itself into murder, and it's L for language and V for violence all over town. In the end, there's no chip heavenly enough to save The Winner from drowning itself in excess shock.