- Max is a family man who's addiction begins to pull him under. His younger brother may be his only hope, but luck plays a wicked game.
- Maximillian (Max) has a serious addiction his family knows nothing about. He places bets with his friend Charlie, but Charlie has become disappointed with Max's lack of control. Max starts to beg family and friends for large sums of money, but no one's willing to help. Even his successful older brother has doubts about why he needs the money. His younger brother Kyle might be his only hope, but he's in a little bit of trouble pocketing money from his "side" gig. With bank letters threatening to take his house, he becomes more desperate for quick money. He thinks all he needs is just one more sure bet to keep him above water, but luck plays a wicked game.—Saxon Moen
- Maximillian (Max) is in debt and has a serious addiction no one knows anything about. He begs family and friends for large sums of money, but no one's willing to help. His successful older brother has doubts about why he needs the money. Max's only hope is his younger brother Kyle, who's collected a stash of money he's skimmed off his "side" gig. He just wants to leave this place for someplace better with his fiancee, Nena. Bank letters pile up, threatening to take his house. Max is desperate to find a way out, all the while promising his pregnant wife that she and their young daughter will always have a home to live in. With pressure increasing to find quick money, Max takes a big gamble. Hanging on to a thread of hope, he takes a blind chance to get himself out of debt, to put him above water. But as some will say, luck plays a wicked game.—Peter Castro
- Max (Travis Lee Eller) has a good job, a nice house, loving wife (Kate Prendergast) and adorable daughter (Mikiko Flynn), so you might think everything's great on his end - but he has a tiny problem, and that's betting on football. And what makes this problem more than a trifle is that he's just not very good at it and is constantly losing money. In fact he's so deeply in debt that he's about to lose his house, and he owes his bookie Charlie (Wali Habib) quite a bit of money, too.
So he tries to borrow money from everywhere he can, but once he's evened the score with Charlie, he goes right and places another bet instead of paying off the mortgage on his house - and that's despite even Charlie telling him to get a grip on his life.
The only one who really sticks with Max is his younger brother Kyle (Mark Valeriano), but Kyle has got problems of his own, among them his girlfriend Nena (Angelica Briones), a recovering heroin addict. Another being that he's doing drug deliveries for the mob, but has the habit of embezzling some of the money he gets for a better future for him and Nena somewhere else.
But now it seems the mob has grown wise on him, and in his desperation, he pretty much forces all the money, a small fortune, on Max - who of course can't withstand the temptation and places a pretty big bet with Charlie ... and wouldn't you know it, he wins for a change. Thing is, since he placed the bet, Charlie has "disappeared", and the thugs who have been taking over are not people to take over his debts as well and pay out Max.
By now though, Kyle really has to skip town and relies on Max returning the money - which means Max, if he doesn't want to see his brother killed, has to get what's "rightfully his", even if at gunpoint ... and since when was that ever a good idea? Written by Mike Haberfelner
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By what name was The Debt of Maximillian (2019) officially released in Canada in English?
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