Gambling Addiction & Me: The Real Hustler

Gambling Addiction & Me: The Real Hustler

2012 · 57 min · Documentary

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.

Directed by Iain Scollay · Written by Alexis Conran

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