Hard EightIn PTA's directorial debut a man named Sydney adopts and takes under his wing a down on his luck man, John. They head to Vegas where Sydney teaches John ways of playing the system and making money. A few years later they're still together and Sydney finds another person he wants to help, a young Vegas waitress/prostitute played by Gwyneth Paltrow.
The film is shorter and smaller than PTA's later movies but Hard Eight is still an intense film with some great performances by Phillip Baker Hall and John C. Reilly.
The movie is really about Sydney, the old man that has made mistakes in his life, seeing where their lives are headed he attempts to help these other younger people so that they don't make the same mistakes he did. The dialogue is really slick and the movie looks great. This director can do no wrong.
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