The Gambler
For $10,000 they break your arms. For $20,000 they break your legs. Axel Freed owes $44,000.
A dark, psychologically intense portrait of a man's descent into gambling addiction and the mounting consequences that threaten his life and livelihood.
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.
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