“For $10,000 they break your arms. For $20,000 they break your legs. Axel Freed owes $44,000.”
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.
Director: Karel Reisz
James Caan
Axel
Paul Sorvino
Hips
Lauren Hutton
Billie
Morris Carnovsky
A. R. Lowenthal
Jacqueline Brookes
Naomi
Burt Young
Carmine

Carmine Caridi
Jimmy
Carl W. Crudup
Spencer
1997