Troubled friendships

Here is a double feature about that albatross around your neck; your best friend. The recommendation is first from 1985, "The Falcon and the Snowman" followed by, from 1998, "Rounders." These are for the ultra loyal among us.
"The Falcon and the Snowman" stars Timothy Hutton as Christopher Boyce, an idealistic college dropout with access to federal intel and Sean Penn as Daulton Lee, his drug troubled best friend. The movie tells the true story of how they successfully smuggled secrets to the Soviets during the cold war.
"Rounders" stars Matt Damon and Edward Norton as two New Yorkers who make the rounds playing big stake poker in underground games.
These movies have complex friendships where the fallout of one party's dangerous choices are visited on both.

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