Gambling Addiction & Me: The Real Hustler

2012 | 57 minutes | 0.0 ★ (0)

Gambling Addiction & Me: The Real Hustler
  • Overview

    Alexis Conran explores gambling addiction, an affliction that ruined his estranged father, and seeks to understand how and why this compulsion destroys people's lives. A documentary where Alexis Conran of The Real Hustle explores the effects of gambling addiction on his life, and the lives of others. Gambling addiction ruined his father's life, so the documentary seeks to find why gambling addiction is powerful enough to destroy someone's life.

  • Release Date

    03 July 2012

  • DirectingIain Scollay
  • Budget

    $0.00

  • Revenue

    $0.00

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