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- You don't need to see the original to appreciate Wyatt's movie, but if you have, you might have even more admiration for the new version. In the end, The Gambler turns out to be one of those rare remakes that manages to stand on its own terms, while still being faithful to the themes and tone of the original.
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Dec 25, 2014 · This retooling of the 1974 James Caan film is completely devoid of the grit, nastiness and desperation of the Karel Reisz-James Toback original. Caan’s character was memorable because one sensed that his film might do something awful to him, or worse, that his character might self-destruct and harm himself.
The Gambler. New York City English professor Axel Freed (James Caan) outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that ...
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THE GAMBLER doesn't amount too much, except a story of a walking existential crisis looking for his pacifier, which is conveniently located at a blackjack table. Full Review | Original...
Dec 25, 2014 · In The Gambler we meet Jim Bennet (Mark Wahlberg), the son of a wealthy family and a highly intelligent literature professor/writer. When Jim finds out that his inheritance will not be at all what he expected, he embarks on a dangerous venture in his secret life as a high-stakes gambler.
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Dec 22, 2020 · The Gambler is one of the best gambling movies ever made. The film was launched in 1974 and it started as a biography novel. The producer, James Toback, wanted to write its own story, him itself being an English lecturer with gambling problems. In the end, he decided to turn the book into a screenplay.
Jun 2, 2015 · Mark Wahlberg is intense and compelling as a gambling-addicted university professor in suspenseful crime drama The Gambler, a slick update of a grittier 1974 James Caan movie.
Dec 24, 2014 · Dec. 24, 2014. In “The Gambler,” a movie about a guy who’s a glutton for criminally high stakes and for punishment, a skeletonized Mark Wahlberg wears a mop of greasy hair and an abject look....
