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| ACTORS: | James Caan, Paul Sorvino |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Karel Reisz |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | October, 1974 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Paramount Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-drama |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 097360867848 |
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Customer Reviews of The Gambler
The Essence of Life is Risk James Caan is superb as a college professor obsessed with putting his money and his psyche on the line because of the rush he gets from gambling. In debt up to his ears, Caan wins the money he owes back only to lose it again in a bizarre roller coaster ride. As he tells his students, 2 plus 2 may equal 4, but he has the right to say that it may equal 5 tomorrow, if his will is strong enough. Caan's willingness to place himself at risk because he believes he can alter the outcome of events by force of will is linked to his study of Dostoevsky's The Gambler. His journey corrupts and alienates everyone around him as his own quest for purity remains intact. The viewer may find Caan's character insane and reckless, but the philosophy at the core of this thrilling psychological drama (written by James Toback) is one worth living. This is the only film I know of other than Hannah & Her Sisters by Woody Allen to use a quote from e.e. cummings.
A well written and superbly acted film about gambling
A very powerful movie about a man on the road to self destruction. James Caan is excellent as an intelligent English professor who falls victim to the seedy world of compulsive gambling. This is the most realistic movie ever made about gambling and its influence on others. A great supporting cast and a well written script make this truly a classic.
"FOR $10000.00 THEY BREAK YOUR ARMS...
For $20,000.00 they break your legs. Axel Freed owes $44,000." I was captivated by the tag line of this lost jewell of the '70's, which stands alongside Karl Reisz' other forgotten masterwork of the decade (WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN?). James Caan radiates a brilliant character study of a degenerate gambler hellbent on self destruction, not only at the tables and back rooms, but in life. He throws away his birth rite to riches, his family, a beauty (Lauren Hutton in her first significant screen role). It's a road well traveled by the lost and Caan has it mastered. Great screenplay by James Toback, written immediately prior to his own lost marvel of the 1970's, FINGERS (1979).