The Gambler

…World War II, and in The Gambler (2014), a remake of a 1974 drama about a man with a gambling problem. Later movies included Trumbo, a biopic about blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (2015); the comedy Love the Coopers (2015); the horror film 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016); and Patriots Day (2016),…

The Gambler (2014) cast Lange in the role of the contemptuous, but ultimately sympathetic, mother of an English professor with a gambling problem. She later costarred with Shirley MacLaine in Wild Oats (2016), a comedy about two women who travel to the Canary Islands after…

…acted with Mark Wahlberg in The Gambler (2014) and with Amy Schumer in Trainwreck (2015) before her breakthrough in Room. In addition to an Oscar, Larson also won a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award for her work in the film, which was based on a 2010 novel by…

…Transformers: The Last Knight (2017); The Gambler (2014), a remake of a 1974 film based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; and the comedy Daddy’s Home (2015) and its 2017 sequel.