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Nothing to Lose (1997)

★ 6.6 · 687 ratings on TMDB

When the odds are against you, sometimes the only bet is yourself.

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Advertising executive Nick Beame learns that his wife is sleeping with his employer. In a state of despair, he encounters a bumbling thief whose attempted carjacking goes awry when Nick takes him on an involuntary joyride. Soon the betrayed businessman and the incompetent crook strike up a partnership and develop a robbery-revenge scheme. But it turns out that some other criminals in the area don't appreciate the competition.

The emergence reading

Nothing to Lose keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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