BORN TO WIN - FREE MOVIE - HD REMASTERED WIDESCREEN - Robert De Niro & George Segal

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Born to Win is a 1971 black comedy crime drama film directed by Ivan Passer and starring George Segal, Karen Black, Paula Prentiss, Hector Elizondo, Jay Fletcher and Robert De Niro. Filming locations took place in Manhattan, specifically Times Square.

Plot
The film follows J (George Segal), a former hair dresser who has broken up with his wife (Paula Prentiss) and since become an aimless drug addict frequenting Times Square. He lives his new life by doing deals from time to time for Vivian (Hector Elizondo), a successful and intimidating drug dealer. J thinks his life is about love and peace yet he and his fellow friend and junkie Billy Dynamite (Jay Fletcher) try to steal a safe behind the back of a cashier. However, like in many of J's misadventures, they fail once confronted and chaotically flee the scene.

One day while trying to steal a car, J meets the car's owner, Parm (Karen Black), a free spirited girl who takes a liking to J. They go back to her apartment, with J intending to steal things from her, yet the two fall in love. While making love, Parm finds a tattoo on J's arm that says "Born to Win" - of which J is very proud.

When J returns to his routine, his drug habit grows, and, after dropping drugs off to Stanley (Irving Selbst), a prominent member of Vivian's supply chain, he and Billy return the next day to rob the drugs back from Stanley's girlfriend. They have to ditch the drugs, however, when, on their way out of the apartment, two dirty policemen (Ed Madsen and Robert De Niro) confront them and apprehend J. On the threat of serious jail time, J agrees to works alongside them by becoming a narc and to report to them on Vivian.

Stanley soon catches up to J, who narrowly escapes serious harm from his men. After making an airport delivery, J and Parm flee the city to the beach on Long Island. They brief fully experience romantic bliss, but he then insists on returning to the city for payment for the airport delivery. Upon returning, he faces further, increasingly intense pressure from Stanley and Vivian. The detectives force him to arrange a meeting with Vivian, who senses that it's a set up and refuses to make a deal.

J reunites with Billy and things seem more hopeful again. Billy tells J that he appreciates the certainty of purpose that their lifestyle provides. This relative calm doesn't last long, however. When together in an office building, Billy shoots up with drugs intended for J and immediately dies - the drugs were a "hot shot" intended to kill. A panicked and distraught J abandons his dead friend in the elevator. J and Parm make one last attempt to leave the city, but run into the detectives again who plant drugs on Parm and take her away for arrest. All of his plans having failed, J sinks deeper into turmoil with feelings of self-hatred and goes to Vivian's club. Vivian gives him free drugs and both he and J acknowledge that they could very easily be a hot shot. Alone and with his future completely uncertain, J sits alone on a bench in the middle of Times Square.

Cast
George Segal, as J
Karen Black, as Parm
Paula Prentiss, as Veronica
Hector Elizondo, as Vivian
Jay Fletcher, as Billy Dynamite
Robert De Niro, as Danny
Ed Madsen, as Detective
Marcia Jean Kurtz, as Marlene
Irving Selbst, as Stanley
Burt Young, as First hood