Academy Award-nominee Mark Wahlberg delivers a career-defining performance as Jim Bennett, an English professor leading a secret double life as a high-stakes gambler. When Jim borrows money from dangerous gangsters, he places the lives of those he loves in mortal danger. With time running out, he must enter the criminal underworld and risk everything to keep from losing it all. John Goodman, Brie Larson and Academy Award-winner Jessica Lange star in the thrilling film critics are calling gritty, intense and wholly engrossing.