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01-04-2015, 04:28 PM
Release date: December 25, 2014
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 $240,000 when he borrows $50,000 from a brutal gangster named Neville (Michael Kenneth Williams), putting up his own life as collateral.
Bennett blows the $300,000 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.
Genre: Thriller
Runtime: 111 min
Director: Rupert Wyatt
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Producers: Robert Chartoff, Mark Wahlberg, David Winkler, Stephen Levinson, Irvin Winkler
Screenplay: William Monahan
Cast: Mark Wahlberg,John Goodman,Brie Larson,Michael Kenneth Williams,Jessica Lange
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5gPQXbFs9Y
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 $240,000 when he borrows $50,000 from a brutal gangster named Neville (Michael Kenneth Williams), putting up his own life as collateral.
Bennett blows the $300,000 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.
Genre: Thriller
Runtime: 111 min
Director: Rupert Wyatt
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Producers: Robert Chartoff, Mark Wahlberg, David Winkler, Stephen Levinson, Irvin Winkler
Screenplay: William Monahan
Cast: Mark Wahlberg,John Goodman,Brie Larson,Michael Kenneth Williams,Jessica Lange
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5gPQXbFs9Y