Product Details

• Actors: David Krumholtz, Tory Kittles, Nicholas Turturro, Jennifer Morrison (II), Zachary Levi
• Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: December 17, 2002
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00006AUJN
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #122,637 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Big Shot - Confessions of a Campus Bookie" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

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Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 7-SEP-2004
Media Type: DVD

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really good flick, February 15, 2004

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K. Stuckey "kateling" (Port Huron, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Big Shot - Confessions of a Campus Bookie (DVD)

This movie, based on a true story is interesting and Ernest Dickerson's direction is superb - I like the 'shaky' camera effects. David Krumholtz is awesome as Benny Silman! He starts out as a naive freshman, moving across the country to go to college, but the freedoms get the best of him. He starts gambling, then works for a bookie, then goes out on his own. He ends up hooking up with a b-baller to assure the house wins everytime, but the wrong people find out about his scheme and it gets complicated.

The subplot with Callie is cute, especially when she mocks him. This movie is great, even after repeated viewings.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars edited subsequent to price drop; still 4 stars, December 30, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Big Shot - Confessions of a Campus Bookie (DVD)

originally i said this was a very good movie to buy if you could stomach the then-high price, which i could. i went to ASU around the time the hedake smith story was reaching full media realization. this is an interesting take on the whole mess.

the DVD's best extra, of the real benny silman explaining what happened, is a raw take on the situation from a guy who genuinely seems to understand he did wrong. (note that, as best i could tell, no footage was added or subtracted from the TV version of the actual movie, in case you hoped to see callie nude or witness benny brutally unloading a machine gun on big red and his posse.)

flaws: the video transfer, though generally glossy and praiseworthy, is a little messy in a couple spots (most noticeably when benny is selling suits). and the spanish subtitles consistently refer to ASU as the university of arizona - an obvious sore spot for any ASU alum!

anyway, i watched it twice the first day i bought it, and this was a movie i'd already seen once on TV.

highly recommended. thanks for releasing this, FX.

5.0 out of 5 stars True Story of ASU's Sports ilegal Gambeling and the MOB, November 20, 2011

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Geoffrey P. I. - See all my reviews

This review is from: Big Shot - Confessions of a Campus Bookie (DVD)

Most Amazing true account of Arizona State University Sports teams conspiring with a Jewish MOB connected Fraternity Man gone Bookie.
Bennie, I never knew personally, I did not know of this happening as a student while at ASU. There is a special scene of a charactor
who resembled the Uni-Brow Pat Tillman ASU Football player, NFL Cardnals Legend and former Ranger (It is my opinion Pat was too straight and would not be involved in throwing a game for the MOB).

The fates of some students at ASU at the end of the film is quite shocking. Wait until the very end and Benny gives a real life interview.
Hats off and applause to the casting director because these people look exactly like who I saw on campus when I was a student.
I would love to take classes from the productions staff who made this amazing movie not to be missed. To think this was going
on and I did not know about it just blew me away.