Mark Wahlberg stars in The Gambler as Jim Bennett--English professor by day, high-stakes gambler by night. He bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Bennett enters an illicit, underground world and takes the ultimate risk for a second chance. In The Fighter, Wahlberg takes on the role of lightweight title winner “Irish” Micky Ward in this inspirational docudrama about the perennial underdog who rebounds from a disheartening series of defeats.