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aka Sydney (why'd they change the name?) by Magnolia director Thomas Paul Anderson is a low key, low paced Las Vegas drama centered around some stunning performances from John C. Riley as a naive loser, Gwyneth Paltrow as a loser hooker (she's such an impressive actress!), a mean Samuel L. Jackson and Philip Baker Hall as the enigmatic philanthropist gangster.
No hard rock music, just space enough to let the actors give their best.
Also noted Philip Seymour Hoffman, another great second role actor, giving his all on the craps table.
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I enjoyed this one as well. Grabbed it off the shelf one night at the local Blockbuster, not knowing anything about it and really not expecting too much. I was quite pleasantly surprised. Great performances all the way around, but especially by Hoffman and Paltrow.
The studio didn't like the title 'Sydney' and P.T. Anderson lost the fight, since it was his first feature, he just didn't have a leg to stand on and had to relent to using the studio's name for the project, 'Hard Eight.'****Don't read the rest of this if you haven't seen it*******
A script note(and again a SPOILER ALERT): Did you notice when Samuel L. Jackson is shaking Sidney down, and they both are sitting in his car outside the casino at night, and Jackson tells him that he knows of his reputation with the mob heavies back East, he says ...'Jimmy Gator'...'I know about all those guys.'
Jimmy Gator was the name of Philip Baker Hall's character in 'Magnolia'. That always just stuck in my head. FWIW.
..I ended up following quite a few links and threads to various connections between films with this one, pretty interesting.
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