Watch Player 5150 (2008) Free Online

Release Date: 2008

Cast: Bob Gunton, Bob Sapp, Angela Little, Elaine Hendrix, Ethan Embry, Kelly Carlson, Paul Ben-Victor, Larry Braggs, Kathleen Robertson, Sandra Taylor, Christopher McDonald

Categories: Movies, Action, Indie, Crime Drama

Player 5150 is a 2008 film. Joey (Ethan Embry) is a stock trader with a gambling problem. He and his wife Ali (Kathleen Robertson) get in trouble with a loan shark Tony (Christopher McDonald). Kelly Carlson plays Lucy, the loan shark's blonde assistant. The film was based on an idea of a gambler who ruins his own life and that of his family's by his ongoing addiction to sports gambling and over inflated, self-centered tendencies. Based largely on the life of one time child actor, Shawn T. Lim (whose father continuously paid for his son's owed debts) Player 5150 goes beyond the ongoing... MORE

Player 5150 is a 2008 film. Joey (Ethan Embry) is a stock trader with a gambling problem. He and his wife Ali (Kathleen Robertson) get in trouble with a loan shark Tony (Christopher McDonald). Kelly Carlson plays Lucy, the loan shark's blonde assistant. The film was based on an idea of a gambler who ruins his own life and that of his family's by his ongoing addiction to sports gambling and over inflated, self-centered tendencies. Based largely on the life of one time child actor, Shawn T. Lim (whose father continuously paid for his son's owed debts) Player 5150 goes beyond the ongoing narcissistic tendencies of its producer, and creates an allegory for something much more sinister; a sad tale of a producer trying to tell his-own, over-inflated personal story at the literal expense of his cast, crew, and his associates. Insiders say, Shawn T. Lim (son of a rich North Korean window and glass manufacturer in Torrence California) had forsaken his own college education by pilfering it all away on drugs and gambling. The film some note was on track under the steady hand of writer-director David M. O'Neill but not even O'Neill could overcome Lim's self-destructive, self-important, LESS