Hard Eight


 
 

Hard Eight is a 1996 film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow and Samuel L. Jackson. Robert Ridgely, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Melora Walters also appear.

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The film, originally titled Sydney, was Anderson's first feature; Hall, Reilly, Ridgely, Hoffman and Walters have acted in Anderson's subsequent films.

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Sydney, a gambler in his 60s, sees a young man, John, sitting outside a diner and offers to buy him a cup of coffee. When Sydney learns that John is trying to get enough money for his mother's burial, he offers to take him to Reno and teach him how to win the money by gambling. Though skeptical at first, John eventually agrees.


 

Paul Thomas Anderson: Paul Thomas Anderson (born June 26 1970 in Studio City, California, USA) is an American filmmaker....

Philip Baker Hall: Philip Baker Hall (born September 10, 1931) is an American screen actor. He did not have aspirations to be an actor until late in his life. He first served in the military, started a family and became a high school English teacher. In 1961, having become bored with his life, he decided to become...

John C. Reilly: John Christopher Reilly (born May 25, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor of Irish and Lithuanian descent....


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