Annette Bening
The Grifters
(1990)
Jim Thompson (novel), Donald E. Westlake (screenplay)
Nominated for 4 Oscars.
Lily works for a bookie, placing bets to change the odds at the track. When her son is hospitalized after an unsuccessful con job and resultant beating, she finds that even an absentee parent has feelings for her child. This causes her own job to go wrong as well. Each of them faces the down side of the grift.