
Alvin Malone is heavily in debt because of his addictive gambling; he is plagued by self-repressed homosexual tendencies; and he is finding it all very hard to reconcile with his Jewish heritage... not to mention with his wife. Between the crumbling ties of matrimony and threats of violence from his bookie, Alvin finds little time to look for work. Just when things seem their worst, his overbearing mother-in-law makes him an offer: 'Give me a grandchild and have your gambling debts settled for good.'

Alvin Malone is heavily in debt because of his addictive gambling; he is plagued by self-repressed homosexual tendencies; and he is finding it all very hard to reconcile with his Jewish heritage... not to mention with his wife. Between the crumbling ties of matrimony and threats of violence from his bookie, Alvin finds little time to look for work. Just when things seem their worst, his overbearing mother-in-law makes him an offer: 'Give me a grandchild and have your gambling debts settled for good.'
2011-06-18
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No one said becoming a father was going to be sleazy.
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6.0To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him.
6.3After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.
7.2A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.
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6.8A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.
7.3A rich man learns about a guru who can see without using his eyes. He sets out to master the skill in order to cheat at gambling.
6.3Four college friends become small-time bookies, only to find their world spinning dangerously out of control when their greed attracts the attention of organized crime.
7.0Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American gangster Teddy KGB. Promising his partner Jo he'll give up, he meets up with best friend Lester 'Worm' Murphy, just out of prison and owing lots of money to the wrong kind of people. McDermott becomes his co-guarantor and now there's only one way to raise the money, the pair have to get back into the game.
6.8Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was astute, decisive and helpful. To his friends, he was a quiet, but humorous man who enjoyed watching sports on television. To his girlfriend, he was shy but engaging. None of them knew the other side of Dan Mahowny--the side that executed the largest single-handed bank fraud in Canadian history, grossing over $10 million in eighteen months to feed his gambling obsession.
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7.3Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
6.8A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.
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