The Gambler

The Gambler

Movie |

Gambling | Gun

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  • Genre(s): Thriller, Crime, Drama
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Rupert Wyatt, Donald Sparks, Peter Dress, Tracy Scott
  • Cast(s): Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Brie Larson, Michael Kenneth Williams, George Kennedy See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 1h 51min
  • Music: Dan O'Connell, Rodriguez,Jon Brion,Ron Bartlett,R.J. Kizer
  • Award(s): COLA 2014 (Won)
    Black Reel 2015 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: The Marsh King's Daughter, Little Dixie
  • Story:
    Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Staying one step ahead, he pits his creditor against the operator of an illicit gambling ring while garnering the attention of Frank, a paternalistic loan shark. As his relationship with a student deepens, Bennett must risk everything for a second chance.
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6/10
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STORY AND RATINGS

Story
Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Staying one step ahead, he pits his creditor against the operator of an illicit gambling ring while garnering the attention of Frank, a paternalistic loan shark. As his relationship with a student deepens, Bennett must risk everything for a second chance.
Ratings

6/10

IMDb

AWARDS

Won
COLA Award

Location Team of the Year Studio Feature Film | 2014

Nominations
Black Reel Award

Outstanding Supporting Actor Motion Picture | 2015 | Michael Kenneth

Golden Trailer Award

Best Sound Editing | 2015

LMGI Award

Outstanding Locations in a Contemporary Film | 2015 | Chris

BOX OFFICE

Budget 25,000,000 USD

Box Office Collection 39,171,130 USD

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

Mark Wahlberg dropped sixty-one pounds for his role, going from one hundred ninety-eight pounds to one hundred thirty-seven pounds, by doing a diet consisting of mostly liquid food and vegetables, and a workout of strictly cardio. Wahlberg claimed that he deliberately set one hundred thirty-seven pounds as his goal, because the thinnest he had ever been for a role previously was Boogie Nights (1997), in which he played a teenager, and weighed one hundred thirty-eight pounds.

Each day Jim's shirt color gets lighter, starting with a black shirt and ending with a white shirt

Mark Wahlberg said that he would prepare his whole life for a role like this. However, he said he would never lose that much weight again for a role.

Mark Wahlberg was determined to nail the role of a literature professor, so much so that he sat in on many college courses around different colleges in California and analyzed many professors and their mannerisms so that he could achieve the most believable performance.

Mark Wahlberg stated that this role was the most challenging of his career.

Popular Dialogues

"Jim Bennett: I've been up two and a half million dollars. Frank: What you got on you? Jim Bennett: Nothing. Frank: What you put away? Jim Bennett: Nothing. Frank: You get up two and a half million dollars, any asshole in the world knows what to do: you get a house with a 25 year roof, an indestructible Jap-economy shitbox, you put the rest into the system at three to five percent to pay your taxes and that's your base, get me? That's your fortress of fucking solitude. That puts you, for the rest of your life, at a level of fuck you. Somebody wants you to do something, fuck you. Boss pisses you off, fuck you! Own your house. Have a couple bucks in the bank. Don't drink. That's all I have to say to anybody on any social level. Did your grandfather take risks? Jim Bennett: Yes. Frank: I guarantee he did it from a position of fuck you. A wise man's life is based around fuck you. The United States of America is based on fuck you. You're a king? You have an army? Greatest navy in the history of the world? Fuck you! Blow me. We'll fuck it up ourselves."

"Jim Bennett: There was a student... just the other day... who said that my problem, if one's nature is a problem, rather than just problematic, is that I see things in terms of victory or death, and not just victory but total victory. And it's true: I always have. It's either victory, or don't bother. The only thing worth doing is the impossible. Everything else is gray. You're born... as a man... with the nerves of a soldier, the apprehension of an angel, to lift a phrase, but there is no use for it. Here? Where's the use for it? You're set up to be a philosopher or a king or Shakespeare, and this is all they give you? This? Twenty- odd years of school which is all instruction in how to be ordinary... or they'll fucking kill you, they fucking will, and then it's a career, which is not the same thing as existence... I want unlimited things. I want everything. A real love. A real house. A real thing to do... every day. I'd rather die if I don't get it. Did I just say that out loud?"

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