Owning Mahowny Online

The 2003 film , directed by Richard Kwietniowski, is a stark and unglamorous character study of addiction. It is widely acclaimed by critics like Roger Ebert as one of the most accurate portrayals of a compulsive gambler ever put to film. The True Story

The film is based on the real-life case of Brian Molony , a Toronto bank manager who executed the largest one-man bank fraud in Canadian history. In the early 1980s, Molony embezzled over in just 18 months to fund his gambling obsession in Atlantic City and Las Vegas. After being caught, he served several years in prison and later became a public speaker about gambling addiction. Owning Mahowny (2003) - IMDb Owning Mahowny