Unlike Karel Reisz and James Toback's original 1974 Gambler, the Mark Wahlberg-led update assumes a belief in gambling addiction. Someone who loses thousands upon thousands to roulette was probably born that way. As if to vindicate a remake, writer William Monahan (The Departed) twists his leading man's destructive personality even tighter. The Gambler 2014 becomes a movie about bulls****ing — to friends, to family, to self, with Wahlberg's Jim Bennett the source of his own problem.
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- The Gambler (2014)
The Gambler: Directed by Rupert Wyatt. With Mark Wahlberg, George Kennedy, Griffin Cleveland, Jessica Lange. Literature professor and gambler Jim Bennett's debt causes him to borrow money from his mother and a loan shark.
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The Gambler is a series of five American Western television films starring Kenny Rogers as Brady Hawkes, a fictional old-west gambler. The character was inspired by Rogers' hit single "The Gambler". [1] There are five movies in the series. The first four were directed by Dick Lowry while the last was directed by Jack Bender. The movies are:
04/22/2024 - 11:59 am | View Website - The Gambler (2014 film)
Plot. Jim Bennett is an L.A. literature professor who uses gambling as a way of self-destruction. He ends up owing $200,000 to Lee, the proprietor of an exclusive, high-stakes underground gambling ring, and another $50,000 to Neville Baraka, a loan shark. Lee gives Jim seven days to pay off his debts or be murdered.
04/22/2024 - 11:37 am | View Website - The Gambler (2014)
Wahlberg stars as Jim Bennett, a lecturer reeling from the death of his beloved grandfather (George Kennedy). His all-or-nothing personality gets him in debt for more than a quarter of a million dollars to the no-nonsense Mr. Lee (Alvin Ing), who runs an illegal gambling den.
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" The Gambler " is a song written by Don Schlitz and recorded by several artists, most famously by American country singer Kenny Rogers . Schlitz wrote the song in August 1976 when he was 23 years old. It took two years of shopping the song around Nashville before Bobby Bare recorded it on his album Bare at the urging of Shel Silverstein.
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