Can't win without a little hustle
A young boy named Dallas goes on a search for his pool-hustling father after he abandons their family. Dallas is determined to bring his father home when he meets Joe Haley, a drifter wrestling with a past he'd rather forget, who feels responsible for Dallas' safety and reluctantly takes him in.
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Classical in form, spare, contemporary and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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Cast
- David StrathairnJoe Haley
- Jeffrey Dean MorganCal McCarthy
- Julie Ann EmeryGina McCarthy
- Julian FederDallas McCarthy
- David JensenMerle
- Susan GallagherMaggie
- Kim BaptisteSheriff
- Chip CarriereBartender
- Challen CatesSandy
- Tracy BrothertonBar Patron
Crew
- Tom WrightDirector
- Michael MililloWriter
- Steven BernsteinDirector of Photography
- Michael MililloProducer
- Minor ChildersProducer
- Rachel McHaleProducer
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