Hard Eight (film)

Hard Eight is a 1996 American neonoir crime thriller film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow and Samuel L. Jackson. There are also brief appearances by Robert Ridgely, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Melora Walters.

Sydney, a gambler in his 60s, finds a young man, John, sitting forlornly outside a diner and offers to give him a cigarette and buy him a cup of coffee. Sydney learns that John is trying to raise enough money for his mothers burial. He offers to drive John to Las Vegas and teach him how to make some money and survive. Although he is skeptical at first, John agrees to Sydneys proposal.Two years later, John, having gotten the money for the funeral, has become Sydneys protg. John has a new friend named Jimmy, who does security work, and he is attracted to Clementine, a cocktail waitress in Reno. ........

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