The Cooler (2003) - Shangri-La Scene (8/12) | Movieclips

The Cooler movie clips: BUY THE MOVIE: Don’t miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: CLIP DESCRIPTION: Shelly (Alec Baldwin) describes the Shangri-La of “Lost Horizon“ and laments the changes coming to Las Vegas and his casino. FILM DESCRIPTION: Writer/director Wayne Kramer offers a glimpse into the aging Las Vegas casino world with the romantic drama The Cooler. Bernie Lootz (William H. Macy) is extremely unlucky at gambling, and he owes the Shangri-La casino over 100,000 dollars. He is so unlucky that he is hired as a “cooler,“ someone to gamble next to high rollers and give them some of his bad luck to stop them from winning. This arrangement works out for awhile, until Bernie has almost paid off his debt and meets cocktail waitress Natalie Belisario (Maria Bello). The two start to fall in love and Bernie’s luck begins to change. However, the old-fashioned mob boss Shelly Kaplow (Alec Baldwin) isn&#