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1) The gambler
Publisher
Paramount
Formats
Description
Both an English professor and a high-stakes gambler, Jim Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Always one step ahead, Bennett pits his creditor against the operator of a gambling ring and leaves his dysfunctional relationship with his wealthy mother in his wake. He plays both sides, immersing himself in an illicit, underground world while garnering the attention of Frank, a loan shark with an interest...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Keeping one step ahead of their bookie, two L.A. gamblers embark on a winning streak that takes them to Reno, Nevada, where they enter a high-stakes poker game against the legendary Amarillo Slim.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on real events that occurred in between 1980 and 1981. Dan Mahowney is a quiet, unassuming assistant manager at a bank in Toronto. He is a compulsive gambler and runs up a massive debt with his bookie. Dan's bank responsibilities include approving loans. Needing to cover his debts, Dan starts approving loans to non-existent clients and adding hundreds of thousands of dollars to other accounts. As Dan's debts begin to grow into the seven figure...
Author
Publisher
Biblioasis
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"It's winter in Montreal, 2002, when a graphic design student's gambling addiction starts to drag him under. In debt to the metal band that's commissioned him to draw their album cover and ensnared in lies to his friends and his cousin, he takes the first job that promises a paycheck: dishwasher at La Trattoria, a high-end restaurant, where he finds himself thrust, on his first night, into a roiling world of characters."--
5) Player 5150
Publisher
First Look Studios
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Joey is a successful day trader at a high-end brokerage house with a beautiful fiance?e and a home on the beach. Now the gambling addiction that has plagued him for years has him on the run and he must put everything on the line-- including his life.
6) Hardball
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (207 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hardball: A down-on-his-luck gambler finds himself in debt to a dangerous loan shark. Desperate for cash, he reluctanly takes on the job of coaching a youth baseball team. The team turns out to be a ragtag group of tough-talking kids from Chicago's inner city. Now, as he must wrestle with his past, the kids start to teach him some lessons that will forever change his future.
The bad news Bears: A former minor-league pitcher gets roped into coaching...
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"After embezzling funds to support his gambling addiction, an unscrupulous white banker in Minnesota is blackmailed by his boss into sabotaging the creation of a competing, Native American-owned bank. As the banker befriends the people he's trying to frame, he struggles to escape from his past and do the right thing"--
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nell Trent lives with her doting grandfather in his London shop. It is a magical place, filled from wall to wall with treasures. Grandfather keeps his nocturnal gambling activities a secret from Nell. He borrows heavily from the evil, profiteering loan shark Daniel Quilp. When Grandfather gambles away what little money they possess, Quilp seizes the opportunity to take possession of their beloved shop. It seems Nell and Grandfather are left only with...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xiv, 241 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about the physical manifestations of violence, grief, trauma, and abuse on his own body. He writes of his own eating disorder and gambling addiction as well as similar issues that run throughout his family. Through self-exploration, storytelling, and honest conversation with family and friends, Heavy seeks to bring what has been hidden into the light and to reckon with all of its myriad sources, from the most...
10) On thin ice
Author
Formats
Description
The way twelve-year-old Ked Eakins of Norton, Maine, sees it his life has been stolen from him, piece by piece; first by kyphosis, a spinal abnormality which has made him a social outcast at school and a target for the school bully, by his friends who have recently abandoned him, by his mother who left for the West Coast taking the insurance which might have saved him with her, and by his father who is a gambling addict who has lost the rent money--but...
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (308 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Blonde crazy : A bellhop and chambermaid are out to enjoy each other, while conning criminals.
Strangers may kiss : A desperate lady is on a love trek across the continent.
Hi, Nellie : A newspaperman gets demoted to being a column writer, and finds comfort in a glass.
Dark hazard : A gambling addict is torn between a good girl and a glamour girl who bets it all on one special pooch.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (7 hrs. 24 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DI Harry Clayton is a detective in central London's murder squad suffering from a gambling addiction. After a night spent with the mysterious Eve, he wakes up with an ancient bracelet on his wrist and discovers that it gives him supernatural luck. With his gambling addiction having cost him his wife and daughter and being in debt for thousands of pounds to a casino owner, Clayton soon begins to use the bracelet to his own advantage.
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