Going for Broke

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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 nontransgressive solitary money problem

1:03:55-1:07:10: gambling Laura goes shopping, as her children do not have anything to eat at home. She passes a slot machine and gambles away the money she needs for shopping.

This will be seen as addiction, as the mother does not care for the basic needs of her children, because of her habit of gambling.

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