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The Gin Game
Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey, two elderly residents at a nursing home for senior citizens, strike up an acquaintance. Neither seems to have any other friends, and they start to enjoy each other's company. Weller offers to teach Fonsia how to play gin rummy, and they begin playing a series of games that Fonsia always wins. Weller's inability to win a single hand becomes increasingly frustrating to him, while Fonsia becomes increasingly confident. While playing their games of gin, they engage in lengthy conversations about their families and their lives in the outside world. Gradually, each conversation becomes a battle, much like the ongoing gin games, as each player tries to expose the other's weaknesses, to belittle the other's life, and to humiliate the other thoroughly.
- Original title
- The Gin Game
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- —
- Revenue
- —
Jessica Tandy
Fonsia Dorsey
Hume Cronyn
Weller Martin
Terry Hughes
Director
Mike Nichols
Stage Director
Terry Hughes
Producer
D.L. Coburn
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Apr 21, 1981
Showtime
Mar 6, 1984
PBS "American Playhouse"
