
The Gambler
A slow, queasy descent into self-destruction, watching a clever man calmly gamble away everything while daring the world to hurt him.
- Directed by
- Karel Reisz
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Starring
- James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton
- Tagline
- For $10,000 they break your arms. For $20,000 they break your legs. Axel Freed owes $44,000.
- Overview
- New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.
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- Directed by
- Karel Reisz
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Starring
- James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton












