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VIDEO FLASH: Tony Award Winner Kevin Spacey in Casino Jack Film

The official trailer for the upcoming film Casino Jack, which stars Tony Award and Academy Award winner Kevin Spacey, has been released. George Hickenlooper has directed the movie, which has a screenplay by Norman Snider. The film will be released December 29.

In the movie, Spacey plays lobbyist Jack Abramoff, whose practices precipitated one of the bigger scandals of the Bush administration.

The cast also features Kelly Preston, Barry Pepper, Rachelle Lefevre, Jon Lovitz, Eric Schweig, and Christian Campbell.

Spacey is the artistic director of London’s Old Vic Theatre. He won the Tony Award as Best Featured Actor in a Play for Lost in Yonkers and received a Best Actor nomination for The Iceman Cometh. He is also a two-time Academy Award winner for American Beauty and The Usual Suspects.