Even worse: Some shady businesses that identify themselves as factors are really
just loan sharks fully prepared to threaten or coerce clients who owe them money.
Not exact matches
After selling the shop to a local
loan shark, Calvin slowly begins to see his father's vision and legacy and struggles with the notion that he
just sold it out.
Will he win it at a casino, get it from his feisty mother (the underused Jessica Lange), deal with notorious
loan shark Frank (images of a shirtless John Goodman will haunt me for days), or
just tap out?
Loan shark Frank (a sweaty John Goodman) tells Bennett that he's suicidal, but in fact he's
just searching for that one elusive moment of greatness that will give meaning to his life.
By chance, Craig has
just run into an old high school pal, Vince (Ethan Embry), who works as a collector for a
loan shark and is more than ready to cut corners — among other things — en route to a big score.
His vice gets him in deep with a series of unsavory
loan sharks (Alvin Ing, Michael Kenneth Williams and John Goodman), borrowing money from each purportedly to pay off debt to the others, only to flit it all away at blackjack and roulette tables, seemingly
just because he can.
Just a tip, though: If your high school basketball movie has multiple sets of
loan sharks attending the climactic playoff game, you're probably dealing with too many characters.
The book also talks about the various debts «solutions» that certain people make
just to survive the month — getting
loans from car deeds,
loan sharks, at work, etc..
You don't have to make your pitch on «
Shark Tank», refinance your home or take out a business
loan to take the next step in your entrepreneurial journey — business grants can help you get there, you
just need to know where to look and how to apply.
I
just don't understand how these
loan sharks can continue to attack and harass people who are giving them what they ask.
One cold December night, he gets handed a job befitting a newcomer to organized crime: go collect this measly 300 grand debt (That's in Yen, mind you... that would have been around $ 2,450 in 1988 or
just shy of $ 5k today, adjusting for inflation) from this sad sack of a dude, and deliver the money to the
loan shark waiting for it.