Louis Theroux: Gambling in Las Vegas (2007)

Directed by

Stuart Cabb

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

59 min

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 35 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Louis Theroux visits the Las Vegas Hilton to talk to gamblers and casino workers. He meets people who have lost enormous amounts of money and sees how the casino caters to its biggest spenders.

observationalsoberingintimateunnervingmatter-of-factrevelatoryquietly tragic

What happens

Louis Theroux: Gambling in Las Vegas is a TV documentary written and presented by Louis Theroux. He heads to the Las Vegas Hilton, to reveal the world behind the myths of casino culture. Among the people he meets are two of the casino's 'high-rollers' and an employee who looks after them as well as a retired doctor who says she has gambled away $4 million in seven years. The program was first broadcast on 4 February 2007 on BBC Two. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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