Overrated kitchen-sink drama

Rating: 4/10 (20 November 2000)

This is no Hud! Having heard of this movie as an all-time classic- I instead was treated to a slow-moving soapy with Piper Laurie and Paul Newman trading "tragic but heroic" speeches. The pool scenes between Eddie and Fats were great, but that was about it. The director slowed everything wayyyy down. See Hud instead...