In its unforced, gripping, black-comic chaos, Uncut Gems resembles nothing so much as a super-violent, feature-length episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. There is a consistency of purpose that their earlier film, Good Time, lacked. It conjures up the work of James Toback and John Cassavetes – and indeed early Martin Scorsese, who is an executive producer here. It is directed by the Safdie brothers, Benny and Josh, who create something deliciously horrible, working with their longtime screenwriter-collaborator Ronald Bronstein. Phil and Nico loot the store as the police are called.T his sensationally good New York crime drama is rocket-fuelled with greed and crack-fumed with fear. Julia leaves the casino with Howard's winnings. Arno protests and tries to escape, but Phil kills him as well. An ecstatic Howard frees Arno, Phil and Nico, but Phil, enraged, shoots and kills Howard. Garnett's Boston Celtics win the game, winning Howard $1.2 million.
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Howard watches the game on TV while Arno, Phil and Nico remain trapped. Furious, the three attempt to pursue her, but Howard locks them in between the store's security doors.
The thugs find Howard in his office and threaten him, but he refuses to call Julia and cancel the bet. Julia narrowly escapes as Arno, Phil and Nico arrive at KMH. He tells Julia to travel by helicopter to Mohegan Sun to place the bet for him. Howard learns that Garnett is still willing to purchase the opal as soon as the sale is made, Howard bets the proceeds on a three-way parlay on Garnett having a strong performance. Howard returns to KMH, bloody and in tears. A furious Gooey gives Howard the opal before Arno, Phil, and Nico assault Howard outside the auction house. He convinces his father-in-law Gooey to bid on the gem to drive up the price, but the plan backfires when Garnett fails to top Gooey's final bid. Just before the auction starts, Howard discovers the opal has been appraised for significantly less than his initial estimate of $1 million. Garnett returns the opal before the auction and offers to purchase it for $175,000, but Howard refuses, given the substantially larger appraisal. After an awkward Passover dinner, Dinah rejects Howard's plea to give their marriage another chance. Feeling betrayed, Howard demands that Julia move out of his apartment. Howard discovers Julia and the Weeknd snorting cocaine together in a bathroom, and gets into a fight with him. Demany says that Garnett still has the opal, angering Howard. Howard tracks down Demany at a party hosted by the Weeknd. Phil and Nico strip Howard naked and lock him in the trunk of his car, forcing him to call Dinah for help.
Arno reveals that he placed a stop on Howard's bet as it was made with money owed to him. Howard wins $600,000, but is ambushed at his daughter's school play by Arno and his bodyguards Phil and Nico. Immediately after Garnett leaves, Howard pawns the ring and places a six-way parlay on Garnett playing extraordinarily well in that night's game. Howard reluctantly agrees, accepting Garnett's 2008 NBA Championship ring as collateral. Garnett becomes obsessed with it, insisting on holding onto it for good luck at his game that night.
While Garnett is in the store, the rare Ethiopian black opal Howard has ordered arrives. Howard's business associate Demany brings basketball star Kevin Garnett to KMH. His domestic life is split between Dinah, his estranged wife who has agreed to a divorce after Passover, and his girlfriend Julia, a KMH employee. Howard struggles to pay off gambling debts, including $100,000 he owes to Arno, his loan shark brother-in-law. 2012, gambling addict Howard Ratner runs KMH, a jewelry store in New York City's Diamond District. In 2010, Ethiopian Jewish miners retrieve a rare black opal from the Welo mine in Africa.
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