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The Gambler

The Gambler
Score: 4.97 / 10
Released: December 25, 2014
Director: Rupert Wyatt
Producer: David Winkler, Irvin Winkler, Mark Wahlberg, Robert Chartoff, Stephen Levinson
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Brie Larson, Michael Kenneth Williams, Jessica Lange
Genre: Thriller
Length: 111 minutes

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The Gambler Synopsis

English professor Jim Bennett (Mark Wahlberg) is a high stakes gambler who routinely loses hundreds of thousands of dollars at blackjack and roulette tables. A risk taker, he's already in debt for $200,000 when he borrows $60,000 from a brutal gangster named Neville (Michael Kenneth Williams), putting up his own life as collateral.

Bennett blows the $260,000 his mother (Jessica Lange) gives him to bail him out during a single trip to a Palm Springs Casino and immerses himself in an illicit, underground world while garnering the attention of loan shark Frank (John Goodman). It isn't until Bennett develops a relationship with student Amy Phillips (Brie Larson) and she's threatened, that he finds himself taking the ultimate risk to get a second chance.

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