Posts Tagged ‘gambling-debt’

Vanity Fair (2004)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Gabriel Byrne | Angelica Mandy | Roger Lloyd-Pack | Ruth Sheen | Kate Fleetwood | Reese Witherspoon | Lillete Dubey | Romola Garai | Tony Maudsley | Deborah Findlay | John Franklyn-Robbins | Paul Bazely | Rhys Ifans | Jonathan Rhys Meyers | Charlie Beall
Directors: Mira Nair
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The British Empire flowers; exotic India colors English imaginations. Becky Sharp, the orphaned daughter of a painter and a singer, leaves a home for girls to be a governess, armed with pluck, a keen wit, good looks, fluent French, and an eye for social advancement. Society tries its best to keep her from climbing. An episodic narrative follows her for 20 years, through marriage, Napoleonic wars, a child, loyalty to a school friend, the vicissitudes of the family whose daughters she instructed, and attention from a bored marquess who collected her father’s paintings. Honesty tempers her schemes. No aristocrat she, nor bourgeois, just spirited, intelligent, and irrepressible.

Owning Mahowny (2003)

Friday, March 27th, 2009
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Canada | UK
Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman | Minnie Driver | John Hurt | Maury Chaykin | Ian Tracey | Sonja Smits | K.C. Collins | Jason Blicker | Vince Corazza | Roger Dunn | Eric Fink | Mike 'Nug' Nahrgang | Tanya Henley | Brona Brown | Philip Craig
Directors: Richard Kwietniowski
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Based on the true story of a Toronto bank manager, Dan Mahowny is addicted to gambling. Horses and sports are only a few of his interests. Eventually, he creates dummy accounts at his bank and uses that money to fly to Atlantic City to gamble. He seems to get little joy from winning and his addiction is such that he is unable to stop in any event. Even if he wins huge amounts - which he does - he simply continues to play until he has lost it all. It’s a frighteningly lonely experience that cannot include friends or anyone else around him. In the end, his hours and hours at the tables give him nothing and as his embezzlement catches up to him, he is arrested and sent to jail.

This Christmas (2007)

Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Delroy Lindo | Idris Elba | Loretta Devine | Chris Brown | Keith Robinson | Laz Alonso | Columbus Short | Sharon Leal | Lauren London | Lupe Ontiveros | Jessica Stroup | Mekhi Phifer | Regina King | David Banner | Ricky Harris
Directors: Preston A. Whitmore II
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A Christmastime drama centered around the Whitfield family’s first holiday together in four years.

Knight’s Tale, A (2001)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Heath Ledger | Rufus Sewell | Shannyn Sossamon | Paul Bettany | Laura Fraser | Mark Addy | Alan Tudyk | B?r?nice Bejo | Scott Handy | James Purefoy | Leagh Conwell | Christopher Cazenove | Steve O'Donnell | Jonathan Slinger | Nick Brimble
Directors: Brian Helgeland
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Inspired by “The Canterbury Tales,” as well as the story of Ulrich von Lichtenstein, this is the story of William, a young squire with a gift for jousting. After his master dies suddenly, the squire hits the road with his cohorts Roland and Wat. On the journey, they stumble across an unknown writer, Chaucer. William, lacking a proper pedigree, convinces Chaucer to forge genealogy documents that will pass him off as a knight. With his newly-minted history in hand, the young man sets out to prove himself a worthy knight at the country’s jousting competition, and finds romance along the way.

The Cooler (2003)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: William H. Macy | Alec Baldwin | Maria Bello | Shawn Hatosy | Ron Livingston | Paul Sorvino | Estella Warren | Arthur J. Nascarella | Joey Fatone | M.C. Gainey | Ellen Greene | Don Scribner | Tony Longo | Richard Israel | Timothy Landfield
Directors: Wayne Kramer
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The Cooler is Bernie Lootz, and THE COOLER is a love story about the changing fortunes of this down-at-heels loser who has made a career out of spreading his virulent bad luck on the floor of Las Vegas’ aging Shangri-La casino. When Bernie falls for a gorgeous cocktail waitress his bad luck is thrown into reverse.

Quicksand (2001)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Michael Keaton | Michael Caine | Judith Godrèche | Rade Serbedzija | Matthew Marsh | Xander Berkeley | Kathleen Wilhoite | Rachel Ferjani | Elina L?wensohn | Clare Thomas | Hermione Norris | William Beck | Jean-Yves Berteloot | Jean-Pierre Castaldi | Colin Stinton
Directors: John Mackenzie
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The workaholic head of the compliance section of a New York bank flies to Monaco to investigate unusual deposits from an offshore bank and meets a down-on-his-luck international film star who has become embroiled in criminal activities.

Mean Machine (2001)

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Sport
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Vinnie Jones | David Kelly | David Hemmings | Ralph Brown | Vas Blackwood | Robbie Gee | Geoff Bell | John Forgeham | Sally Phillips | Jason Flemyng | Danny Dyer | Jason Statham | Martin Wimbush | David Reid | David Cropman
Directors: Barry Skolnick
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Disgraced ex-England captain (Danny ‘Mean Machine’ Meehan) is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. Whilst in jail, he doesn’t recieve any favours because of his celebrity status in the outside world. He is out numbered and many prisoners constantly barrage him with insults for letting down his country in a crucial World Cup game. He keeps his head down and has the opportunity to forget everything and change the lives of the prisoners. These prisoners have the chance to put one over the evil guards. The prisoners are lead by Danny and the whole of the prison, guards aside, are behind them. Game on……