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The Color of Money

  • 19861986
  • RR
  • 1h 59m
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Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in The Color of Money (1986)
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Fast Eddie Felson teaches a cocky but immensely talented protégé the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback.Fast Eddie Felson teaches a cocky but immensely talented protégé the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback.Fast Eddie Felson teaches a cocky but immensely talented protégé the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback.
IMDb RATING
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87K
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POPULARITY
1,712
169
    • Martin Scorsese
    • Walter Tevis(novel)
    • Richard Price(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Paul Newman
    • Tom Cruise
    • Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
    • Martin Scorsese
    • Walter Tevis(novel)
    • Richard Price(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Paul Newman
    • Tom Cruise
    • Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 170User reviews
    • 63Critic reviews
    • 77Metascore
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    • Won 1 Oscar

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    Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio in The Color of Money (1986)
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    • Eddie
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    Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
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    Helen Shaver
    • Janelle
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    • Julian
    Bill Cobbs
    Bill Cobbs
    • Orvis
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    • Earl at Chalkie's
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    Elizabeth Bracco
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    Ron Dean
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      • Walter Tevis(novel)
      • Richard Price(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      Tom Cruise did his own trick shots for the film, except for one in which he had to jump two balls to sink another. Martin Scorsese said he could have let Cruise learn the shot, but it would have taken two extra days of practice, holding up production and costing thousands of dollars. The shot was instead performed by professional players Andrew Ghiatsidis & Michael Sigel.
    • Goofs
      After playing Vincent, Eddie disassembles his cue stick twice.
    • Quotes

      Eddie Felson: Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.

    • Crazy credits
      Dog Walkby (Zoe)
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      Featured in At the Movies: Jumpin' Jack Flash/Tough Guys/Children of a Lesser God/'Round Midnight (1986)
    • Soundtracks
      Strangers In The Night
      Words by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder

      Music by Bert Kaempfert

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    9/10
    "I Want Your Best Game"
    Although a lot of this plot is taken from the Richard Widmark rodeo film When the Legends Die, The Color of Money is still a worthy film and a good successor to the early Paul Newman classic, The Hustler.

    I imagine that players like Paul Newman who create classic characters like Fast Eddie Felson must be bombarded with scripts or story ideas for sequels. Paul Newman is one of the most discriminating of players and up to this point he had only reprised his role in Harper with The Drowning Pool.

    When he decided to do The Color of Money there was no need to age Newman twenty five years with makeup. Time had done a better job than any makeup man could have done. Time had also honed his acting abilities so that he could realistically recreate one of his classic characters in an older generation.

    One thing about The Color of Money is that can and does stand independently of The Hustler. You do not have to have seen the earlier film to know what's happening here. Nevertheless in that earlier film, promising new pool player Eddie Felson does not take direction from mobsters who effectively end his career before he gets it firmly on track.

    Fast forward from 1961 to 1986 and Paul Newman is now a liquor salesman who hangs around poolrooms in tank towns and dreams what might have been. A young kid with a 'sledgehammer break' gets Newman's attention and its Tom Cruise. He's got a girlfriend, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio with him and the three sort of adopt each other.

    It's a complicated relationship between all three of them and all three of them manage to convey the many ups and downs of this triangle. Newman teaches Cruise the tricks of the trade including how to tank a game occasionally to bring up the betting odds. In many ways Cruise learns too well and Newman hanging around with him makes him realize just how much he's missed because of the gangland blackball.

    Reportedly Newman and Cruise got along splendidly during the making of The Color of Money. Their joint interest in auto racing cemented a very good working relationship.

    Paul Newman was also nominated during the eighties for Absence of Malice and The Verdict which are two of my favorites with him. Unfortunately in the first he was up against Henry Fonda who had been similarly snubbed for years by the Academy and was dying during the Oscar voting. The second time Ben Kingsley portrayal of the title role in the massive blockbuster Gandhi obscured what I think is Newman's finest performance in The Verdict.

    Though the Oscar was an Oscar for lifetime of work, The Color of Money is a worthy sequel to The Hustler. Martin Scorsese got great performances out of the whole cast. And Paul Newman finally got a matching Oscar to go with the one Joanne Woodward won for The Three Faces of Eve for their mantelpiece.
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      • October 17, 1986 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
      • Spanish
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      • Chicago, Illinois, USA
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      • Touchstone Pictures
      • Silver Screen Partners II
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