The Color of Money

7 October 1986119 min

The Hustler isn't what he used to be. But he has the next best thing. A kid who is.

Plot: 

Former pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson decides he wants to return to the game by taking a pupil. He meets talented but green Vincent Lauria and proposes a partnership. As they tour pool halls, Eddie teaches Vincent the tricks of scamming, but he eventually grows frustrated with Vincent's showboat antics, leading to an argument and a falling-out. Eddie takes up playing again and soon crosses paths with Vincent as an opponent.

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Cast & Crew

Paul Newman

Fast Eddie Felson

Tom Cruise

Vincent Lauria

Robert Agins

Earl at Chalkies

Randall Arney

Child World Customer #1

Vito D'Ambrosio

Lou in Child World

Ron Dean

Guy in Crowd

Lisa Dodson

Child World Customer #2

Paul Geier

"Two Brothers/Stranger" Player

Art

Boris Leven

Production Design

Dan Perri

Title Designer

Directing

Writing

Editing

Camera

Michael Ballhaus

Director of Photography

Production

Sound

Skip Lievsay

Supervising Sound Editor

Tom Fleischman

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Fun Facts of Movie

  • Creators of an up-and-coming software company were looking for a name for their revolutionary new video game. They got it from the scene in which Tom Cruise walks into the pool hall and is asked what’s in the case that he’s carrying. His answer: Doom.
  • Tom Cruise did his own trick shots for the film, except for one in which he had to jump two balls to sink another. 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.
  • Paul Newman says the best advice director Martin Scorsese gave him, especially in humorous scenes, was: “Try NOT to be funny.”
  • When Paul Newman won the Best Actor Oscar for this picture, he and wife Joanne Woodward became the first married couple to win his and hers Oscars since Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. Newman’s win also came after he had already received an Honorary Oscar Statuette the previous year. The win was widely considered based on sentimentality and guilt that one of Hollywood’s leading male actors had never won.
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