Going for Broke

Abstract

Going for Broke (2003, USA) by Graeme Campbell

Main Cast: Delta Burke Company: Brayton-Carlucci Productions

Laura Bancroft a successful business-lady and loving mothers starts to gamble. She gambles excessively and loses everything. In the end it is found out, that she used money from her work place for gambling. She has to go to prison.

Scene: gambling female adults machines tobacco Transgressive social problem

0:33:08-0:33:45: gambling Laura continues to gamble, although her son has already fallen asleep waiting for her, and although she promised to pick up her daughter.

Again there is a neglect of duty, which hints towards addiction.

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