- Anne works as a waitress to support herself, but her real passion in life is painting. The aspiring artist finds herself caught between the attentions of two different men: Joe, a lonely older man, and Samir, a married foreign student.
- Liar's Dice rests on an intriguingly elliptical plot by lead actress, Terry Eubanks-Makdissy From this, director Issam Makdissy has woven a loosely-knit fabric of shifting focus and thickening relationships. Gradually, one separates the film's three major characters from other peripheral figures, and an oblique and atypical romantic triangle comes into the foreground. Its principal figures are: Anne, a woman painter, who makes do by working as a cocktail waitress in a low-class Oakland bar; Joe, a white-haired, older, divorced man who frequents the bar and has a passion for horse-racing as well as for Anne, and Samir, a young Arab, (played by the director) who is going to school, enduring an unhappy marriage to an American, and soothing some of his marital dissatisfactions and homesickness for Lebanon in an affair with Anne. The film conveys a poignant sense of some working-class lives, centering on characters who know broken dreams and relationships all too well. Surprisingly, despite its share of sad insights, the film does not traffic in despair, but rather finds signs of resilience in unlikely places and people.
- An uneven first film from director Issam B. Makdissy, written by his wife Terry Eubanks-Makdissy, Liar's Dice also stars the couple as two sides of a three-cornered relationship. Anne (Eubanks-Makdissy) works as a waitress to support herself, but her real passion in life is painting (as it is for Eubanks-Makdissy). The aspiring artist finds herself caught between the attentions of two different men: Joe (Robert Ede), a lonely older man aware of his entrenched isolation, and Samir (Makdissy), a married foreign student just as lonely as Anne or Joe. Since no one really wants a threesome, someone, somewhere is going to have to give. A fairly interesting independent feature, LIAR'S DICE was put together on a shoestring budget of just $40,000. Eubanks-Makdissy, the director's wife--who also did the film's script and art pieces-is a lonely artist who must work as a cocktail waitress to support herself. She becomes involved with two men--a married foreigner (Makdissy, the film's director), and an older man (Ede)--to help take away her pain. While the film fails to explore this theme as fully as needed for dramatic impact, there is an honesty to the movie like that so often found in small, independent features. Ede's performance is the standout, a believable portrait of an old man's plight. Despite the low budget, LIAR'S DICE makes its point well with a sincerity lacking in similar-themed, bigger-budgeted Hollywood productions.
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