Prop Bets or Side bets have circulated in gambling circles for a long time now. For the participants looking for continuous action, prop bets come as a breath of fresh air.
It can be a bet on anything from whether the next play will be a run or a pass in football, to what side will appear on the tossed coin during the Super Bowl, to whether a vegan will actually eat and retain a cheeseburger for $10,000, or whether a person can survive living in complete darkness in a bathroom for 30 days, or if someone would get a set of breast implants for $100,000.
This is the official description of the documentary which deals with the over-the-top arbitrary bets out there. No rating by the MPAA. The runtime is 92 minutes. This will be available from Davis Theater and on-demand from Friday.
To some, these are plausible, but they very much exist out there. The individual who received the breast implants decided to keep them because he thought they looked good on him after the period of time he had to wear them. Humanity is nuts.
In the windy and downright absurd comedy “7 Days to Vegas,” Duke, an actor-turned-poker player played by commentator Vincent Van Patten, takes a prop bet of over a million dollars claiming he can walk the 280 miles from the San Fernando Valley to Las Vegas in a week.
To make it worse, he has to accomplish the trek dressed in a suit while taking short breaks in an air conditioned RV inhabited by a colorful cast of characters, which includes a movie director who is not only betting against him, but actively trying to sabotage him.
As loosely based on some of Van Patten’s escapades when he hosted a Hollywood home poker game, Duke’s character takes us on a journey through his life as an actor, which soon turns into him creating infomercials, and ultimately catapults him into the world of high stakes poker.
Duke is earning so much money that he is burying piles of cash in the backyard. This pleases his wife KC (who is played by a soap opera legend Van Patten’s wife, Eileen Davidson) and his little brother Carl (who is played by Van Patten’s little brother James and steals the show with his great comic timing). Unfortunately, Duke got tricked into investing his money by a Ponzi scheme conman (James O’Hurley) resulting in him losing everything and becoming desperate to strike it rich again.
Enter Sebastian, the incredibly successful British director (Ross McCall) with a personality so guaranteed to infuriate you that it is borderline cringe. Being a cold-hearted gambler, he derives twisted enjoyment from winning poker matches and as such is willing to resort to devious means to come out on top in any bet.
In a move that is sure to have even the most headstrong of us flailing in utter desperation, Sebastian predicts that no one would be able to briskly trot 40 miles a day for a week in the blistering sun. To prove this, he sets up a wager of 5 million dollars to Duke’s 1 million, which a benefactor sets up for him, challenging him to walk to Vegas.
Chad Lowe features as a county sheriff trying to break into Hollywood and Paul Walter Hauser features as a sweet but quiet poker player/ventriloquist vent who throughout the movie is a quintessential example of the famous puppets, who is the opposite of his rude and inappropriate puppet counterpart. Veteran character actor Don Stark as Angry Jim who appears to have some affiliation with the mafia portrays a violent man.
Even those who consider themselves experts in the industry have never seen anything like this and those who don’t understand a busted straight from a royal flush wouldn’t have the slightest idea what prop bets are. Still, “7 Days to Vegas” will have any and everyone laughing out loud as it is a wide-ranging satire about some very ridiculous but equally amusing people.
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