Sydney aka Hard Eight

Posted on: July 2, 2008

Posted in: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Produced in: USA

Year: 1996

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Actors:

Philip Baker Hall Sydney
John C. Reilly John
Samuel L. Jackson Jimmy
F. William Parker Hostage
Philip Seymour Hoffman Young Craps Player
Nathanael Cooper Restroom Attendant
Robert Ridgely Keno Bar Manager
Michael J. Rowe Pit Boss
Peter D'Allesandro Bartender
Steve Blane Stickman
Andy Breen Groom
Mark Pinizza Desk Clerk
Richard Gross Floorman
Cliff Keeley Aladdin Change Booth Attendant
Truman Robbins Pastor

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4: If you stay in the game long enough, you'll see everything, win everything, and lose everything.
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  • great first half

    i loved the first half of this debut film from Paul Thomas Anderson.i
    liked the crisp dialogue and the interaction between the characters
    played by Philip Baker Hall,and John C.Reilly.the film was sparse and
    economical,until the second half.The tone changes into a much darker
    picture,a sort of crime drama.plus,there's the pointless cameo
    appearance of Philip Seymour Hoffman.his character made no sense at
    all.Sam Jackson and Gwyneth Paltrow also show up along the way.i liked
    Jackson's character,but i found Paltrows character too border on silly
    .anyway, as i said,i loved the first half of the film,but as the second
    half progressed,i like it less and less.for me,Hard Eight is a soft
    6/10

    disdressed12 from Canada - 18 May 2009

  • Precisely done drama.

    You get the impression that this inexpensive film turned out just about
    the way the director, P. T. Anderson, wanted it to. It was shot among
    the neon casinos, shadowy parking lots, and motel and hotel rooms in
    Reno, Nevada, "The Biggest Little City in the World" as the sign over
    the highway used to read. The photography and lighting are hypnotically
    low, though nothing is obscured. The direction is straightforward
    without being headlong. There is no directorial razzle dazzle. Events
    take place in real time. No car pursuits, no exploding fireballs, no
    shoot outs, no ugly guns. The performances are about as good as they
    get for this type of smallish film. Not that the actors necessarily
    have a good deal of range, but that they fit their parts well.Philip Baker Hall is the central figure, an ex hood who hangs in a
    hotel apartment, dresses in inconspicuous suits and ties, has a little
    money stashed away from previous enterprises "back East", and adds to
    it by a little well-calculated gambling. Hall's character is polite but
    inexpressive, and he doesn't like profane language used around women.
    You may recognize him from currently running TV commercials of a comic
    nature for a product whose name I never cared to remember. He runs
    across John C. Reilly, a young guy who is down and out, and more or
    less adopts him. He also takes under his wing a cocktail waitress,
    Gwyneth Paltrow, who adds to HER income by hooking on the side. The two
    young folks get along well under his avuncular tutelage.Enter Samual L. Jackson in essentially the same role he played in
    "Jackie Brown," the savvy and self-interested dude who sees through all
    the rhetoric and hears all kinds of stories about all kinds of goings
    on. Nobody could do it better than Jackson. He smiles readily, extends
    a friendly, reassuring pat on the back, and projects an attitude of
    "You and I are men of the world and we both know what's really
    happening." The self interest is never too well hidden though and it
    proves his undoing.John C. Reilly looks and acts a little dumb, as he should, but he
    doesn't bring any poetry to the part and gives the weakest performance.
    Gwyneth Paltrow is a little hard to believe as the put-upon, reluctant
    whore, but she brings it off by investing the role with a winsome
    quality, as if she'd just been snatched off an Iowa farm and sold into
    white slavery racket.There is no musical score as such, no thumping electronic percussion to
    pump up the adrenalin and damage the inner ear, but there is source
    music. A trio plays in one of the lounges — vibes, bass, and guitar –
    quietly reproducing the kind of modestly jazzed-up old standards that
    Frank Sinatra would have eaten alive.It's an unpretentious movie about affection, love, greed, and murder in
    Reno. Nicely done. But one carp. Philip Baker Hall stars. And there is
    a small scene with early Philip Seymour Hoffman rolling the dice
    against a "hard eight." Philip Baker Hall and Philip Seymour Hoffman. I
    only mention the director, Philip Thomas Anderson, in passing. I won't
    mention the name of the writer — Philip Thomas Anderson — at all.
    That's enough of that stuff. No more three names. It's an affectation
    that's pompous enough for women like Jennifer Jason Leigh but it's
    inexcusable in men. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, okay. That's history.
    But what's next? Ernest Miller Hemingway? I'm warning you guys — cut
    it out.

    Robert J. Maxwell (rmax304823@yahoo.com) from Deming, New Mexico - 18 April 2009

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