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.

• Paramount Pictures
• Chartoff-Winkler Productions
• James Caan
• Paul Sorvino
• Lauren Hutton
• Morris Carnovsky
• Jacqueline Brookes
• Burt Young
• Carmine Caridi
• Vic Tayback