The Gamble
the gamble
As a young woman prepares a memorial film retrospective for her late estranged father, his work begins to influence her life in strange and significant ways. Laura Elliott's quiet life in the wilderness of Desolation Sound is shattered when her old friend, Elizabeth, comes to visit.
Laura learns that her husband has been having an affair with A young man joins a feisty runaway as he flees from the noblewoman who won him in a wager. It would be hard to conjure up a more lame, poorly acted and directed and pitiful excuse for a swashbuckler film. Naturally, whenever a low-budget film is made by foreign hands and B-list actors, the result is not going to be a classic, but this is even more dreadful than expected!
The plot concerns a young man Modine who gambles his life away in an attempt to regain the estate that his father has already lost. He loses to a woman Dunaway who will stop at nothing to reclaim him when he reneges on the deal. Modine is all wrong for this type of role with his contemporary gait and looks, along with his flat, monotone line delivery. Beals is also hopelessly wrong.
The one saving grace is Dunaway who is her usual ultra-glamorous self, but even she can't do much with this garbage. She is flawlessly lit, coiffed and dressed, but gives a very stilted performance.
The ending to this turkey must be seen to be believed as ultimately the tale takes on supernatural qualities! How anyone could cast Modine in "Cutthroat Island" after this mess is one of life's great mysteries. There are ample doses of blood and topless women to keep the unlucky viewer from turning the thing off. Start your free trial.
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The Gamble
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