The lives of two strangers - a struggling mother and a gambling addict - meet in tragedy. Years pass, and they must come to terms with themselves, and one another.
Michael Delaney (Jake Busey) é um cartunista que tem uma grande dívida junto a um cassino em Las Vegas. A fim de quitá-la, o dono do cassino lhe oferece uma proposta: Michael deve fazer com que Kyle Bremmer (Jake Busey), um amigo dele, se case em 30 dias. Caso ele consiga, todas as suas dívidas serão perdoadas. Porém, as coisas começam a se complicar quando Michael se envolve com a noiva de Kyle.
A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler.
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider. Based on "The Sign of Four" and the short stories "The Dying Detective", "The Final Problem", "The Speckled Band" and "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot".
Desde os 12 anos, Dan Mahowny (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) é viciado em jogo e não passa um dia sem efetuar algum tipo de aposta, seja em cassinos, corridas de cavalos ou outros esportes. Seu prazer, no entanto, não está no lucro, mas no excitante ato de jogar. Perante sua namorada e seus amigos Mahowny é apenas um devotado funcionário de banco, visto como extremamente eficiente por seus superiores. Apesar de sua aparente ingenuidade, durante um ano e meio ele conseguiu desviar mais de 10 milhões de dólares para financiar suas compulsivas apostas.
An average kind of guy who has a slight problem with gambling goes to the track, and mystically, it seems as though he can't lose, no matter how he bets; and he has an incredible day.
In Russia in the early 1900s, Fedya, a handsome, self-indulgent womanizer, falls in love with and marries Lisa, his friend Victor's fiancée. Fedya quickly tires of domestic life and resumes his profligate ways, drinking and gambling away his family's fortune. Lisa refuses to leave him despite his deplorable ways, so he takes drastic measures to ensure that she will no longer be harmed by his actions and reputation.
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. Encouraged by the casino manager, she gets hooked on gambling, to the point where she "borrows" David's expense money to pursue her addiction. This finally breaks up their marriage, but David continues trying to help her.
When illegal casino owner Charley Kyng develops heart disease, he is advised by a doctor to spend more time with his family. However, he finds it difficult to keep his work separate from his life at home. His son, Paul, feels ashamed of Charley's career and gets into a fight at his prom because of it. Meanwhile, Charley's brother-in-law, Robbin, who works at the casino, begins fixing games due to his extreme gambling debts.
The chronicle of an average American housewife who just happens to be addicted to gambling.
Oscilando entre o prazer e o desespero, Elric mergulha numa paixão patológica pelo cassino. Ele poderia ter começado uma nova vida ao conhecer Suzy, mas a jovem também é arrastada para o vício nos jogos. Assim, o casal começa a se envolver no temível mundo dos trapaceiros profissionais.
A wealthy young socialite gets the gambling bug, and soon it goes from being just a fun pastime to an addiction, and she begins to lose more and more of her fortune.
An honest guy gets trapped into the world of horse racing and his once prosperous life becomes a downward spiral into the underworld.
A young girl is taken with a boy that she meets, but he leads her into gambling where she begins losing money, becomes desperate, and starts to steal.
A house by the sea has stood vacant for many years, after misfortune befell several owners, which an artist painting the house explains to a passergy. A cross-editing of principal material from two Chilean films, LA CASA ESTA VACIA and LA DAMA DE LA MUERTE, with the addition of new American-made footage, to create a single story.
This harmless Universal musical comedy is worth having as one of the few filmed records of legendary Broadway comedian Jimmy Savo (his previous starrer, Once in a Blue Moon, is among the rarest of collector's item). The story proper is carried by Robert Wilcox and Nan Grey, cast as a pair of mismatched lovers who share a common interest in horse racing. Hero and heroine get mixed up in a shady get-rich-quick scheme, which threatens to turns disastrous but which ends up solving everyone's problems.
Alan is a gambler desperate to erase the huge sports debt he owes to a cruel but quirky Chicago mobster.
A humble bartender falls into a world of gambling and vices, losing everything.
Comedian and presenter Lloyd Griffith embarks on an experiment to find out if he can uncover the secrets of gambling success and in the process learn the truth about how the industry operates.