When mobsters watch mobster movies, do they laugh at the same tired clichés that crack up laymen? If so, good guys and tough guys alike will be rolling in the aisles watching Ten Benny (a.k.a. Nothing To Lose), a lame and unlikely cross between Say Anything and GoodFellas that's so familiar, it plays like a parody. Set in New Jersey, the film is ostensibly about three longtime friends, but Ten Benny mostly lingers on Adrien Brody, a young greaseball whose massive gambling debts get him in dutch with a local loan officer (nudge, nudge). While he's off trying to gather the money (plus interest, natch) to buy his life back, his best friend (Michael Gallagher) is making the moves on his girl (Sybil Temchen). Ten Benny drags along like a slow-motion soap opera in which the stars are occasionally roughed up by the mob. The acting is mostly of the film-school-project variety, and toward the end, the unintentional laughs come so fast and furious, it's hard to believe Ten Benny is meant to be viewed as a drama. It would be tempting to give first-time director Eric Bross a little slack, but why encourage him? Every subplot seems like filler, and if you filtered out all the unnecessary bits, there'd be no movie left. In the case of Ten Benny, which has been sitting completed on the shelf for the last three years, that might not have been a bad thing.