The Gambler (2014)

Mark Wahlberg portrays the titular character in the thriller The Gambler (2014). Jim Bennett (Wahlberg) is a degenerate who puts up a good front. By day, he earns a living as a literature professor, and by night he feeds his gambling addiction to a point where, like most compulsive gamblers, he find himself in hot water. With debts to Lee (Alvin Ing), the head of a gambling ring and to Neville Baraka (Michael K. Williams), a loan shark, Jim must pull over a quarter of a million dollars out of his ass in seven days or he will be murdered. While Jim thinks about hitting up his students for some cash, he instead he milks his mother (Jessica Lange) to front him the life-saving funds. But during a night out with one of his sexy students, Amy (Brie Larson), in predictable fashion, Jim gambles the cash away. To make matters worse, Amy gets kidnapped, Jim must ask one of his basketball-playing students to shave some points during a game, and more high stakes gambling ensues. Since Wahlberg’s character runs with a shady crowd, he ends up in a strip club enjoying the breast-baring pole dancing from Chanon Finley. Thanks to Ms. Finley, The Gambler will turn you into the masturbator!