The Gambler (2014)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Gambler |
| Original title | The Gambler |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rupert Wyatt |
| script | William Monahan |
| production |
Robert Chartoff , Stephen Levinson , Mark Wahlberg David Winkler Irwin Winkler |
| music |
Jon Brion , Theo Green |
| camera | Greig Fraser |
| cut | Pete Beaudreau |
| occupation | |
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The Gambler is a 2014 American film directed by Rupert Wyatt . It is a reinterpretation of the 1974 film Gamblers Without Scruples . It stars Mark Wahlberg and Jessica Lange ; it was the last film for supporting actor George Kennedy .
action
Jim Bennett is a heavily indebted and gambling addict professor of literature . He borrows money from several loan sharks and gambled it away. His mother Roberta gives him $ 260,000 to pay off his debt and save his life. He also gambled away this money. One of the criminal moneylenders finds out that basketball player Lamar is on Bennet's course and forces Bennett to get Lamar to win the next game by no more than 8 points. Bennett borrows money again and puts it anonymously on the basketball game. But even the high profit is not enough to pay off his two main creditors, who are now threatening his life. He meets with the two of them in a gambling establishment that is controlled by an even more powerful underworld figure, so that neither of the two can forcibly access his money. At the roulette table he stakes all his capital from the basketball bet on black, wins and for the first time does not simply keep playing. He leaves the winnings on the table for his creditors and leaves the gambling den without a single penny in his pocket. Outside he throws his jacket in a garbage can and rejects an offer from one of the two moneylenders to pay him his six-figure surplus from the game of roulette. At dawn he runs across town as if liberated and at the end knocks on the door of his student Amy, who fell in love with him during the course of the film.
production
The Gambler was produced by Paramount Pictures and Winkler Films for an estimated $ 25 million . The shooting began on January 20, 2014 in Los Angeles , the USC Galen Center, Playboy Mansion and the University of Southern California as well as in Las Vegas .
A screening was held on November 10, 2014 in front of industry representatives at the American Film Market in Santa Monica, California. In the USA the film opened in cinemas on December 25, 2014, in Germany on January 15, 2015.
synchronization
The Berliner Synchron production was based on a dialogue book by Hannes Maurer and directed by Erik Paulsen .
| role | actor | speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Jim Bennett | Mark Wahlberg | Oliver Mink |
| Amy Phillips | Brie Larson | Annina Braunmiller |
| Big Ernie | Domenick Lombardozzi | Michael Iwannek |
| Dexter | Emory Cohen | Constantin von Jascheroff |
| Ed | George Kennedy | Jürgen Kluckert |
| Frank | John Goodman | Klaus Sunshine |
| Game Color Man | Marques Johnson | Harry Kühn |
| jeweler | Richard Schiff | Frank-Otto Schenk |
| Lamar Allen | Anthony Kelley | Nico Sablik |
| Neville Baraka | Michael Kenneth Williams | Thomas Petruo |
| Roberta | Jessica Lange | Karin Buchholz |
Web links
- The Gambler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Approval for The Gambler . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2015 (PDF; test number: 149 223 K).
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | The Gambler. Retrieved September 18, 2017 .