The Poker House

Drama - 2008 - USA - English, Spanish - 93 minutes

Starring Academy Award nominee Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone, The Hunger Games) as Agnes, a straight-A high school student and basketball star who, together with her two younger sisters, was raised in a brothel in Iowa.  With a strung-out mother, a pimp father figure and a home overrun by gamblers, thieves and johns, Agnes and her sisters struggle to survive despite impossible odds. 

Director: Lori Petty

Producer: Steve Cannell, Mike Dubelko

Cast: Selma Blair, David Alan Grier, Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone)

Festivals: Los Angeles Film Festival  (WINNER – Outstanding Performance in a Narrative – Jennifer Lawrence)

Distributor: Phase Four Films