Sydney Brown, a well-dressed senior gambler, finds John Finnegan, a homeless man, forlornly sitting outside a diner in Sparks, Nevada. He offers him a cigarette and buys him a cup of coffee. John tells Sydney that he lost his money in Las Vegas and he needs $6,000 for his mother's funeral. Sydney offers to drive John to Vegas, where he helps John win the money. Two years later, John has become Sydney's protégé. Sydney is calm and reserved and displays a fatherly care for John, who is unsophisticated. John has a new friend named Jimmy, who does security work. John is attracted to Clementine, a cocktail waitress in Reno. Sydney meets Clementine, and learns that she moonlights as a prostitute. Although Clementine believes Sydney might want to use her services, he wants to build a connection between her and John. Sydney asks John to show Clementine around the town.
MPAA Rating: | R |
Genre: | Crime, Drama |
Country: | United States |
Produced By: | Daniel Lupi, John S. Lyons, Hans Brockmann, Robert Jones, Keith Samples, FranÇOis Duplat, Helene Mulholland |
Directed By: | Paul Thomas Anderson |
Written By: | Paul Thomas Anderson |
Cast: | Nathanael Cooper, Jean Langer, Xaleese, Steve Blane, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Ridgely, Andy Breen, Kathleen Campbell, Philip Baker Hall, Jane W. Brimmer, Melora Walters, Renee Breen, Wynn White, Ernie Anderson, Richard Gross, F. William Parker, John C. Reilly, Peter D'Allesandro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Wendy Weidman, Mark Finizza, Michael J. Rowe, Gwyneth Paltrow |
In Theaters: | Feb 28, 1997 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 41 minutes |
Production: | Green Parrot, Rysher Entertainment, Trinity |
Budget: | $3,000,000 |
Box Office: | $222,559 |
Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Vudu |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |