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Smokin' Aces (2006)

★ 6.5 · 1,823 ratings on TMDB

Nobody gets away clean.

Smokin' Aces poster★ 6.5

When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing.

DirectorJoe Carnahan
CastAlicia Keys, Andy Garcia, Chris Pine, Common, Davenia McFadden, Jeremy Piven
GenresAction, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
The emergence reading

Smokin' Aces keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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