The Color of Money
1986 · TMDB 6.9
Directed by Martin Scorsese
Former pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson decides he wants to return to the game by taking a pupil. He meets talented but green Vincent Lauria and proposes a partnership. As they tour pool halls, Eddie teaches Vincent the tricks of scamming, but he eventually grows frustrated with Vincent's showboat antics, leading to an argument and a falling-out. Eddie takes up playing again and soon crosses paths with Vincent as an opponent.
Why it matters
Scorsese's sequel to The Hustler, with Paul Newman's Fast Eddie teaching Tom Cruise's Vincent that the point is not the shot but the sale. The pool sequences are cut like fight scenes, all anticipation and release.
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Released
- 1986-10-17
- Studio
- Touchstone Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 6.9
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