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Gambling Addiction & Me: The Real Hustler
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Gambling Addiction & Me: The Real Hustler

Jul 3, 2012
0h 57m
★ 0.0

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.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Matchlight
Grifter Media
BBC Scotland

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Cast

Alexis Conran

Self - Presenter

Alexis Conran

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