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Hugo Pool

starring: Alyssa Milano, Mark Boone Junior, Malcolm McDowell, Sean Penn, Robert Downey Jr.
directed by: Robert Downey Sr.

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781572526372
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 1572526378
Label: Fox Lorber
Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Fox Lorber
Release Date: September 28, 1999
Running Time: 92 minutes
Sales Rank: 92318
Studio: Fox Lorber
Theatrical Release Date: December 12, 1997



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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
There's a fine line between quirky and gimmicky; at times Hugo Pool can't decide whether to be a cute comedy or a mawkish melodrama. Alyssa Milano is Hugo, the owner-operator of a pool company. She has a staggering 44 pools to service in one day, so she shanghais her gambling-addicted mom (Cathy Moriarty), a drug-whacked director (Robert Downey Jr.), and a new client, who happens to be an ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) sufferer (Patrick Dempsey), to help her. Hugo's under an or-else deadline to fill a mobster's (Richard Lewis) pool, so she dispatches her alcoholic junkie dad (Malcolm McDowell) to fetch Colorado River water in a tank truck and bring it back. He picks up a strange hitchhiker (Sean Penn) and becomes obsessed with his shoes; meanwhile, a romance blooms between Hugo and the new client. Of course, Milano is the only sane one in this melange of weirdoes. McDowell channels both Jimmy Durante and Wallace Beery in a bizarre role, Sean Penn is inexplicable, and a rough-looking Downey Jr. sports an indeterminate accent (imagine if Inspector Clouseau was from, say, Romania). Fans of eccentric comedies and offbeat characters (and Alyssa Milano) may enjoy this, while others may find it a little contrived and tedious. --Jerry Renshaw



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - alyssa milano
this movie has a very bad story,script and the acting was so so.I would avoiding buying this since ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Hugo Pool
I thought the interaction between Patrick Dempsey and Alyssa Milano was beautiful. Some of the other ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - The cast makes the film good
Hugo is Alyssa Milano, a pool cleaner. It's a day in her life where she has to put water in a gangster's ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Everyone Calls This 'Quirky'
And I guess it is.

But really, this is more affecting than off-putting as some of the reviews ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Alyssa makes you yank your yanker
She is pretyy pretty pretty and wears plenty of skimpy clothes here, a masterpiece of b-film cinema.

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