It's been awhile since we saw Vince Vaughn tackled a more dramatic role -- and while no one ever really tires of his sarcastic charms, he has the acting chops to do a lot more. It looks like he's stretching them a bit with "Sunny and 68," a drama from Universal Pictures. Variety reports that the actor he's signed onto the lead role, with Gavin O'Connor (whose "Pride and Glory" was just released this weekend) set to direct.

Vaughn will play a poker superstar, whose alcoholism and bad behavior cause him to flame out on live television. He's wiped out, and owes $500,000 to his bookies, a fun situation that sees him fleeing to his childhood home in order to reclaim the cash he's been sending to his mother. He hasn't been home in 20 years, and he finds his mother dying of cancer, and raising a 5-year-old girl who is actually his daughter. Read more...