
Phil and Nico loot the store as the police are called. Julia leaves the casino with Howard's winnings. Arno protests and tries to escape, but Phil kills him as well. An ecstatic Howard frees Arno, Phil and Nico, but Phil, enraged, shoots and kills Howard. Garnett's Boston Celtics win the game, winning Howard $1.2 million.

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Howard watches the game on TV while Arno, Phil and Nico remain trapped. Furious, the three attempt to pursue her, but Howard locks them in between the store's security doors. The thugs find Howard in his office and threaten him, but he refuses to call Julia and cancel the bet. Julia narrowly escapes as Arno, Phil and Nico arrive at KMH. He tells Julia to travel by helicopter to Mohegan Sun to place the bet for him. Howard learns that Garnett is still willing to purchase the opal as soon as the sale is made, Howard bets the proceeds on a three-way parlay on Garnett having a strong performance. Howard returns to KMH, bloody and in tears. A furious Gooey gives Howard the opal before Arno, Phil, and Nico assault Howard outside the auction house. He convinces his father-in-law Gooey to bid on the gem to drive up the price, but the plan backfires when Garnett fails to top Gooey's final bid. Just before the auction starts, Howard discovers the opal has been appraised for significantly less than his initial estimate of $1 million. Garnett returns the opal before the auction and offers to purchase it for $175,000, but Howard refuses, given the substantially larger appraisal. Adam Sandler Is a Lovable Piece of Trash in Uncut Gems You would hate to know a guy like this. After an awkward Passover dinner, Dinah rejects Howard's plea to give their marriage another chance. Feeling betrayed, Howard demands that Julia move out of his apartment. Howard discovers Julia and the Weeknd snorting cocaine together in a bathroom, and gets into a fight with him. Demany says that Garnett still has the opal, angering Howard. Howard tracks down Demany at a party hosted by the Weeknd. Phil and Nico strip Howard naked and lock him in the trunk of his car, forcing him to call Dinah for help. Arno reveals that he placed a stop on Howard's bet as it was made with money owed to him. Howard wins $600,000, but is ambushed at his daughter's school play by Arno and his bodyguards Phil and Nico. Immediately after Garnett leaves, Howard pawns the ring and places a six-way parlay on Garnett playing extraordinarily well in that night's game. Howard reluctantly agrees, accepting Garnett's 2008 NBA Championship ring as collateral. Garnett becomes obsessed with it, insisting on holding onto it for good luck at his game that night. Always looking for the next big bet, Howard thinks he finally hit it big when he discovers a rare uncut Opal from Ethiopia, with a very interested high-profile buyer. While Garnett is in the store, the rare Ethiopian black opal Howard has ordered arrives. Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler) is a once successful New York gems dealer whose gambling addiction has left his family and career in shambles, and him hundreds of thousands in debt. Howard's business associate Demany brings basketball star Kevin Garnett to KMH. His domestic life is split between Dinah, his estranged wife who has agreed to a divorce after Passover, and his girlfriend Julia, a KMH employee. Howard struggles to pay off gambling debts, including $100,000 he owes to Arno, his loan shark brother-in-law. (The same two brothers filmed the grit-tastic film.

2012, gambling addict Howard Ratner runs KMH, a jewelry store in New York City's Diamond District. The Safdie brothers’ Adam Sandler thriller is brilliant, but watching it is a horrible experience. It was later revealed that Sandler was in character, playing Howard Ratner in brothers Benny and Joshua Safdie’s latest film, Uncut Gems. The film’s pacing keeps you invested and stressed out all throughout.In 2010, Ethiopian Jewish miners retrieve a rare black opal from the Welo mine in Africa. This makes Uncut Gems truly unpredictable from opening credits to the very end. I think most first time viewers will miss it as well. There is some foreshadowing in the movie, but I didn’t notice it until the second viewing. Uncut Gems as a whole works in that way as well. Just when you think you know what Howard will do, he switches things up. He has to go for the bigger prize, the greatest win. No matter how many times he lucks out, it’s never enough. The suspense comes from Howard being such a chaotic character. Those movies really pull me in and give me extreme anxiety.
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My favorite suspenseful movies are ones where the suspense comes from heightened everyday situations, and most of the action and drama comes from the main protagonist or antagonist’s obsessions and character flaws (give me the suspense of Whiplash over a Mission Impossible movie any day).


Uncut Gems Keeps You Engaged And Nervous All Throughout The Movie
