Synopsis
A retired pool hustler is forced to pick up the stick again when his brother starts a game he can't finish.
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Cast
- Mars CallahanJohnny
- Chazz PalminteriJoe
- Christopher WalkenUncle Mike
- Rod SteigerNick
- Ricky SchroderBrad
- Michael RosenbaumDanny
- Alison EastwoodTara
- Phillip GlasserMax
- Glenn PlummerChico
- Anson MountChris
Recommendations
- 75
Chicago Sun-Times
One of the things I like best about Poolhall Junkies is its lack of grim desperation. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
Brassy and energetic, first-time director Mars Callahan's vividly photographed ode to the seductive allure of professional sharking succeeds in making the game seem genuinely kinetic and thrilling. - 60
Variety
Callahan mostly overcomes its grungy technical quality with entertaining dialogue, nervy confrontation scenes, decent thesping and some truly spectacular shooting on the green velvet. - 50
New York Post
For all his skill with a cue, the charisma-challenged Callahan is no Nia Vardalos in the acting department -- let alone a Paul Newman or Tom Cruise. - 40
Los Angeles Times
It isn't that nothing happens in Poolhall Junkies, it's that nothing interesting does. - 40
Dallas Observer
The result is by no means the embarrassment that many such offerings from unjustifiably vain actor-auteurs have been, but nor does it present much of anything new or compelling to demand one's attention. - 38
New York Daily News
Stole so many details from the earlier film, "The Hustler," that you have to think of it as either a bad parody or an unfortunate homage. - 30
L.A. Weekly
Callahan's feature debut is a one-way ticket to Palookaville.
