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The Gambler
Crime, Drama
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to psychologically raw character studies about compulsion, moral compromise, and the seductive rush of self-sabotage.
- Tone
- bleak, tense, cerebral
- Payoff
- catharsis, unease
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- addiction, self-destruction, debt, compulsion, identity
- Setting
- 1970s, New York City academic and criminal underworld
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