Jim Bennett aurait tout pour mener sa vie d'enseignant avec passion s'il n'était dévoré par le démon du jeu. Totalement possédé, il doit des sommes considérables. Honteux, il est obligé d'emprunter de l'argent à sa mère et est contraint de s'adresser à un usurier peu recommandable. Parallèlement, la relation qu'il a récemment nouée avec l'une de ses élèves se complique. La jeune fille se montre beaucoup plus audacieuse que ce que Jim imaginait de prime abord. Mais rien ne saurait le tenir éloigné des tables de jeux. Black Jack, roulette et poker sont ses seuls dieux. Jim a décidé de se refaire...
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00:00So this is where he grew up, and we sort of wanted to find a place that will make the audience realize, you know, he's come from a pretty well-off family.
00:09He's got money. We were looking for a place that had sort of a masculine architecture, something to hold up to someone as wonderful as Jessica Lange.
00:16I mean, there's a power in her on the screen. So we're introduced to her at this mansion.
00:21I'll never beat you, Mr. Dexter. But if you ever give me a point again, I'll fire you.
00:30The moment I had this script, I kind of knew who I wanted. So I chased her down.
00:37You're not narcissistic enough to put on a show, nor are you an adolescent.
00:42And I don't think we have to say that you're far from being stupid.
00:47She's an ascendant in the sense of everything that Jim's not, which is why their relationship is so polar.
00:53It's why she doesn't understand him. She's like, how could you possibly want to basically throw all of this money away?
00:58And it's why, as a location, we chose what actually is, in fact, the Playboy Mansion, because the architecture of that place is so heavy.
01:07It sort of looks like a Scottish kind of castle.
01:10And the grey stone, I sort of saw it, in a way, is this sort of weight around her neck.
01:17Like, she'd spent her whole life struggling to find herself in this bucolic billionaire's existence.
01:23But actually, it's a prison.
01:25You're just spinning a cylinder in a revolver, and you're doing it on purpose.
01:34I'm not giving you any more.
01:37Mark's a wonderful actor. I mean, I've always loved his work.
01:42And it's partly the reason I did this, because I wanted to work with him.
01:46And, like I said, the script I found intriguing.
01:49And, like I said, the script I found intriguing.