Product Description Western based on the successful TV series and starring Mel Gibson as the eponymous gambling hero. The film follows Bret Maverick as he struggles to raise the $25,000 entrance stake for a poker game by ripping off as many people as he can in the American Old West. During his quest to reach the game he narrowly escapes being lynched, shot by safari hunters and Indians and robbed several times by the beautiful adventuress Annabelle Bransford (Jodie Foster). Can he make it to the final and win the $500,000 grand prize? From Amazon.co.uk The joined-at-the-hip team of director Richard Donner and star Mel Gibson (all the Lethal Weapon movies and Conspiracy Theory) had obvious fun resurrecting the Wild Western comedy television series about a roguish rambler-gambler. In Maverick, Gibson assumes the role of cardsharp Bret Maverick, equally quick with a pair of aces and a pair of guns. Good sport James Garner (who played Maverick on TV) takes another role, as a lawman who travels alongside the hero to a big-money poker game on a riverboat. The real peach in this fruit salad of satire and broad jokes, however, is Jodie Foster, who plays a crafty Southern belle quite adept at poker herself. Sexy, funny, and (from the onscreen evidence) a great kisser, Foster has never been more of a delight. Written by William Goldman ( Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid). --Tom Keogh