Tag: James Toback

The Gambler (2014) Script

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Year:2014
Director:Rupert Wyatt
Written by:William Monahan (Screenplay), James Toback (Story)

Script Synopsis:Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Staying one step ahead, he pits his creditor against the operator of an illicit gambling ring while garnering the attention of Frank, a paternalistic loan shark. As his relationship with a student deepens, Bennett must risk everything for a second chance.
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Love & Money Script

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Year:1982
Director:James Toback
Written by:James Toback (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:An investment planner, bored with his job and his girlfriend, is given the opportunity to help open a new firm in South America. Once in the new country, he finds himself dealing with dictators and revolutionaries during a time of intense political upheaval, and to complicate his life further, he begins an affair with his new employer's wife.
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The Gambler Script

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Year:1974
Director:Karel Reisz
Written by:James Toback (Writer)

Script Synopsis: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.
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Fingers Script

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Year:1978
Director:James Toback

Script Synopsis:A wanna-be concert pianist spends his days making a living by collecting debts for his Mafioso father, a lifestyle that could eventually ruin his dreams of a musical career.
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Exposed Script

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Year:1983
Director:James Toback
Written by:James Toback (Writer)

Script Synopsis:Wisconsin farm girl Elizabeth Carlson leaves family and her English teacher lover behind and escapes to New York. There she soon makes a career for herself as a fashion model. During a vernissage she's approached by a mysterious man whose motives are unclear...
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The Pick-Up Artist Script

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Year:1987
Director:James Toback
Written by:James Toback (Writer)

Script Synopsis:A womanizer meets his match when he falls for the daughter of a gambling addict who is in debt to the mob.
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Bugsy Script

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Year:1991
Director:Barry Levinson
Written by:Dean Jennings (Novel), James Toback (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.
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