La deuda del profesor de literatura y jugador Jim Bennett le hace pedir dinero prestado a su madre y a un tiburón prestamista. Para complicarlo más aún, está su relación con uno de sus alumn... Leer todoLa deuda del profesor de literatura y jugador Jim Bennett le hace pedir dinero prestado a su madre y a un tiburón prestamista. Para complicarlo más aún, está su relación con uno de sus alumnos. ¿Arriesgará Bennett su vida por una segunda oportunidad?La deuda del profesor de literatura y jugador Jim Bennett le hace pedir dinero prestado a su madre y a un tiburón prestamista. Para complicarlo más aún, está su relación con uno de sus alumnos. ¿Arriesgará Bennett su vida por una segunda oportunidad?
- Premios
- 1 premio y 3 nominaciones en total
- Number 2
- (as Stephen Park)
- Neville's Posse
- (as Janet McPhail)
Argumento
¿Sabías que...?
- CuriosidadesEach day Jim's shirt color gets lighter, starting with a black shirt and ending with a white shirt
- PifiasEarly in the movie when Jim is at the blackjack table and wins an $80,000 bet with a natural 21, rather than being paid the correct amount which should have been $120,000, he is paid incorrectly as he receives 16 of the blue/white chips adding up to $160,000.
- Citas
Jim Bennett: I've been up two and a half million dollars.
Frank: What you got on you?
Jim Bennett: Nothing.
Frank: What you put away?
Jim Bennett: Nothing.
Frank: You get up two and a half million dollars, any asshole in the world knows what to do: you get a house with a 25 year roof, an indestructible Jap-economy shitbox, you put the rest into the system at three to five percent to pay your taxes and that's your base, get me? That's your fortress of fucking solitude. That puts you, for the rest of your life, at a level of fuck you. Somebody wants you to do something, fuck you. Boss pisses you off, fuck you! Own your house. Have a couple bucks in the bank. Don't drink. That's all I have to say to anybody on any social level. Did your grandfather take risks?
Jim Bennett: Yes.
Frank: I guarantee he did it from a position of fuck you. A wise man's life is based around fuck you. The United States of America is based on fuck you. You're a king? You have an army? Greatest navy in the history of the world? Fuck you! Blow me. We'll fuck it up ourselves.
- Créditos adicionalesDuring the opening titles, as the classic Paramount logo appears onscreen, we hear the sound of a roulette as the stars are aligning over the Paramount mountain.
- ConexionesFeatured in Film '72: Episodio fechado 12 noviembre 2014 (2014)
- Banda sonoraThat Glow
Written by Paul Janeway & Jesse Phillips
Performed by St. Paul & the Broken Bones
Courtesy of St. Paul and the Broken Bones
The strange admixture of classroom teaching with students whose views of learning vary from creativity to going pro-basketball (Anthony Kelley) bring out some interesting philosophical comments from Jim the teacher to the underworld of crime and gambling that is complicated by Jim's addiction to the 'sport' ultimately makes for a thought provoking film. There are some fine supporting roles by Andre Braugher, George Kennedy, Alvin Ing, Richard Schiff, but in the end the performances by John Goodman and Mark Wahlberg are the focus of the odd but compelling drama.
- gradyharp
- 16 dic 2016
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Detalles
Taquilla
- Presupuesto
- 25.000.000 US$ (estimación)
- Recaudación en Estados Unidos y Canadá
- 33.680.992 US$
- Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
- 9.129.999 US$
- 28 dic 2014
- Recaudación en todo el mundo
- 39.280.992 US$
- Duración1 hora 51 minutos
- Color
- Mezcla de sonido
- Relación de aspecto
- 2.35 : 1