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Hard Eight | |
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Directed by | Paul Thomas Anderson |
Produced by | Robert Jones John Lyons |
Screenplay by | Paul Thomas Anderson |
Based on | Cigarettes & Coffee by Paul Thomas Anderson |
Starring | |
Music by | Jon Brion Michael Penn |
Cinematography | Robert Elswit |
Edited by | Barbara Tulliver |
Distributed by | The Samuel Goldwyn Company |
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102 minutes | |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $3 million |
Box office | $222,559[1] |
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Hard Eight is a 1996 American crime film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson in his feature directorial debut. It stars Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow and Samuel L. Jackson.[2]
Plot[edit]
Sydney, a senior gambler, finds a young man, John, sitting forlornly outside a roadside diner in Nevada and offers to give him a cigarette and buy him a cup of coffee. Sydney learns that John needs $6,000 to pay for his mother's funeral. He offers to drive John to Las Vegas and teach him how to gamble in order to get by. Although John is skeptical at first, he agrees to Sydney's proposal.
Two years later, after winning the money for the funeral and going on to success as a professional gambler, John has become Sydney's protégé. Sydney is calm and reserved, and displays fatherly care for John, who is more unsophisticated. John introduces Syndey to Jimmy, a man who does casino security work. John has also developed feelings for Clementine, a Reno cocktail waitress. Sydney encounters Clementine leaving a hotel room at the casino and learns that she moonlights as a prostitute, and is not much more sophisticated than John. Although she believes Sydney might want to sleep with her, in truth Sydney tries to build a connection between her and John. He invites her to have a quiet night on her own, in a bedroom in the suite he shares with John, and wakes in the morning to find the two talking together. Torrent horse racing manager 2 friends. After receiving a frantic late-night phone call, Sydney goes to a motel, where he finds John and Clementine holding a man hostage who had refused to pay Clementine an agreed-upon $300 for sex, and subsequently became violent. John reveals that he and Clementine had impulsively married that afternoon. John and Clementine reveal that they have already called the hostage's wife, threatening to murder him if they do not get the money. On hearing about their lack of planning, Sydney manages to calm the situation, advising them to leave town and head to Niagara Falls for their honeymoon. After they leave, Sydney cleans up the motel room to remove evidence.
Sydney confronts Jimmy, who holds him at gunpoint and threatens to tell John that Sydney killed John's father years ago unless Sydney gives him $10,000. They go to Sydney and John's suite, where Jimmy explains that he is from the Northeast, where he heard stories of how Sydney was a feared gangster who killed John's father in Atlantic City. Sydney gives Jimmy the $6,000 in cash in his possession and they part ways. John calls from a roadside phone booth to update Sydney on their trip. During the call, Sydney tells John that he loves him like a son, a sentiment John returns. Sydney sneaks into Jimmy's house and waits for him to return from gambling at a casino. When Jimmy returns home with a woman, Sydney kills him with one of his own guns and retrieves the money. The next day, Sydney goes back to the diner where he first met John and has breakfast, subtly covering his bloodstained shirt cuff with the sleeve of his jacket.
Cast[edit]
- Philip Baker Hall as Sydney
- John C. Reilly as John Finnegan
- Gwyneth Paltrow as Clementine
- Samuel L. Jackson as Jimmy
- Philip Seymour Hoffman as young craps player
- Robert Ridgely as Keno Bar Manager
- Melora Walters as Jimmy's Girl
Production[edit]
Wedding dash 4 pc. Originally titled Sydney, the film was Anderson's first feature and was the expansion of the short filmCigarettes & Coffee.[3][4] The film's main character, Sydney, was named after Hall's character in Midnight Run (1988). Hall, Walters, Reilly and Hoffman later appeared in Anderson's films, Boogie Nights and Magnolia.
Release[edit]
Vijeo designer 6.2 serial. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.[5] In 2018, Anderson said he was currently working on a Blu-ray release of the film.[6]
Reception[edit]
Roger Ebert gave the film three and a half stars out of four, writing 'Movies like Hard Eight remind me of what original, compelling characters the movies can sometimes give us.'[7] Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote 'Hard Eight is not a movie that wants to make a grand statement. It is really little more than a small resonant mood piece whose hard-bitten characters are difficult to like. But within its self-imposed limitations, it accomplishes most of what it sets out to do. And the acting is wonderfully understated, economical and unsentimental.'[8]
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 80% based on 45 reviews, with an average rating of 6.89/10. The website's critical consensus states: 'An absorbing showcase for Philip Baker Hall, Paul Thomas Anderson's feature debut is a gamble that pays off handsomely.'[9] The film is described by some authors as a neo-noir film.[10]
References[edit]
- ^Hard Eight at Box Office Mojo.
- ^Conrad, Mark T. The Philosophy of Neo-Noir, 2009. The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN081319217X.
- ^Mottram, James (2006). The Sundance Kids : how the mavericks took back Hollywood. NY: Faber & Faber, Inc. p. 129. ISBN9780865479678.
- ^Waxman, Sharon R. (2005). Rebels on the backlot: six maverick directors and how they conquered the Hollywood studio system. HarperCollins. p. 87. ISBN978-0-06-054017-3.
- ^'Festival de Cannes: Hard Eight'. Cannes Film Festival. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
- ^Anderson, Paul Thomas (January 16, 2018). 'I'm Paul Thomas Anderson, writer and director of PHANTOM THREAD, AMA!'. IAmA. Reddit.
- ^Ebert, Roger (February 27, 1997). 'Hard Eight'. RogerEbert.com. Ebert Digital LLC.
- ^Holden, Stephen (February 28, 1997). 'Suspense-Filled Puzzle Draped in a Dark Mood'. The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
- ^Hard Eight at Rotten Tomatoes.
- ^Conard, Mark T.; ed. (2009). The Philosophy of Neo-Noir. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN081319217X.
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