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There are several simultaneous plots (gambling, drug addiction, sexual cheating, dealing with the mob), none of them interesting in their execution.
We learn that they are mob bag men sent to collect the week's gambling receipts from two black associates.
A broke American is forced to pose as a Russian prince in order to pay a gambling debt in "Cafe Metropole," a film written by the multi-talented Gregory Ratoff, who also plays a role in the movie.
Buono is short of cash due to some large gambling losses.
When Gianni returned, Buono intended to dispose of him and use the cash to pay his gambling debts.
"Monday Night Mayhem" is an expose type movie, showing us the mostly unsavoury events that went on behind the scenes: the tension in the broadcast booth, director Chet Forte's gambling problems and womanizing.
If continuous drinking, gambling, cursing, or prostitution may offend you, then this show is definitely not for you.
Fascinating Cassavetes work has Ben Gazzara playing Cosmo Vitelli, a California night club owner who, after racking up a huge gambling debt, is given the opportunity to clear it by killing a Chinese bookie.
Few films have captured so accurately the true nature of gambling as has Owning Mahowny.
Not that these films were all about gambling per se, but that they evoked it in spirit.
For just like the act of gambling itself, or indeed, not unlike the Air Bud movies, Owning Mahowny seems enticing at first, that is, when you and your friends are just planning to see it, joking that you might strike big, that this might be the one movie that comes out of nowhere to surprise you, but then from the moment you enter the theatre, every time you give this movie a chance, it's just one bad hand after the other, until eventually you are completely numb to it, and you stop paying attention to your wife, and you start cutting out of work early, and you no longer enjoy anything again in life anymore because all you want is your Owning Mahowny.
Nothing out of the ordinary occurs, except lots of drinking, gambling, a love triangle, ....
He goes out and loses some money gambling and finds that he has to kill someone in order to pay off his debt.
The movie has an unintentionally ridiculous plot involving tri-sexual FBI agents, mobsters, a hot blonde philosophy professor, high stakes gambling, a natural disaster, and a cameo appearance by Al Franken.
Of the three, Son is the least hopeless case in a truly dysfunctional trio, but his relationship with his girlfriend and pre-teenage son is decidedly rocky due to his gambling addiction.
Spock jumps on every comment that every person says, correcting their calculations with comments like "I wish you'd be more accurate" and saying things like "We're not here to engage in gambling" when someone asks about their odds of survival (how many times has Spock himself spewed out odds of this and that in the past?
I know white boys from Iowa that could play a hardcore barrio chica better than her, and as far as being a gambling junkie - gimme a break.
Never before have I seen promiscuity, gambling, deceit, drug use, and gun play so eloquently infused with the likes of philosophical banter.
Cosmo Vitelli (Ben Gazzara) owner of a strip club (possibly the worst strip club ever) has just paid off his last set of gambling debts to a loan shark and celebrates by going gambling.
i think this is another film which is made just to earn money and pay for his gambling habit.
It should be noted that the American Fritz really did hate his life, while the U.K. version's vices (gambling, booze, and adultery) kept him alive.
It's not the company you keep but the one you work for at issue here in this taut film about an ex-CIA agent who goes to work for a company that specializes in helping their corporate clients get the upper hand in any and all situations by any means necessary, but especially blackmail, as the central plot revolves around soborning a judge who has severely compromised his integrity by mounting up impressive gambling debts and extra-marital infidelity.
Though the judge is a gambling philanderer, he's in nobody's pocket, and thus, after taking the bribe, votes his conscience on the case in question, and then opts out after sending his girlfriend (Gia Carides) to the Bahamas with the money.
it was ,however, extremely disappointing because after all those years of grueling training montages and hard work, Rocko loses all of his money because of Paulie's ridiculous gambling habits.
He finds he has to return to the circuit to search for his brother, who has fallen prey to the gambling clutches of the circuit leaders.
It's about a guy, Andy - played by Jay Baruchel, that has thrown his life away by getting hooked on gambling.
Baruchel plays the part with the same desperation of addicts striving for one more fix, be it a drug, alcohol, or gambling.
The story centers around Michelle an assassin who is trying to maintain a stable life in a corrupt world, and her gambling brother Jackie who is in denial of his problems and thinks they can be quickly fixed.
This time being enticed by getting nice things thru gambling initially, then pushed into being an escort to pay back her debts to the gambling club.
The plot is reasonably fair but viewers today will have to make allowances for the unexplained events such as blackouts, German-accented heavies, and gambling dens being converted to dining rooms which may not be quickly understood by a modern audience.
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