The Winner
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The Winner is a 1995 straight-to-TV movie, directed by Alex Cox. Most noted for its quirky cast (Michael Madsen, Vincent D'Onofrio, Frank Whaley, and Billy Bob Thornton, among others) and fine art department: the designer was Cecilia Montiel, who went on to design the movies of Robert Rodriguez and Antonio Banderas' Zorro films.
The film was substantially re-edited by the executive producers, Marc Damon and Rebecca DeMornay, and the original score - by Cox's longtime collaborators Pray for Rain - replaced by a jazz score. Cox requested that his name be removed from the credits, so The Winner is now regarded as an Alan Smithee film.
The screenplay - by Wendy Riss - resembles another low-budget Vegas movie, Destiny Turns on the Radio.