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Gambit (2012)

★ 5.5 · 721 ratings on TMDB

A fake masterpiece. The perfect plan.

Gambit poster★ 5.5

An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and unpredictable Texas rodeo queen.

DirectorMichael Hoffman
CastAlan Rickman, Alex Macqueen, Anna Skellern, Cameron Diaz, Cloris Leachman, Colin Firth
GenresComedy, Crime
The emergence reading

Gambit 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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