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Hugo Pool
Directed by
Robert Downey Sr.
R
1997
1h 32m
Comedy
,
Romance
5.0
29%
45%
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Hugo Pool is a quirky tale of a Los Angeles pool cleaner who falls in love with a young man dying of Lou Gerhig's Disease.
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Cast of Hugo Pool
Alyssa Milano
Hugo Dugay
Patrick Dempsey
Floyd Gaylen
Cathy Moriarty
Minerva
Malcolm McDowell
Henry Dugay
Robert Downey Jr.
Franz Mazur
Mark Boone Junior
Pool Supply Man
Sean Penn
Strange Hitchhiker
Richard Lewis
Chick Chicalini
Bert Remsen
Sad Old Man
Chuck Barris
Irwin
Jim Shield
Lifeguard
Ann Magnuson
Drowning Matron
Eddie Perez
Gardener
Hugo Pool Ratings & Reviews
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Although this flighty comic allegory about love and death in contemporary Los Angeles is wildly overacted, with loose ends flying everywhere, it still conveys an antic poignancy.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
What a mess.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Hugo Pool, the first film in six years from former counterculture director Robert Downey sets new standards in wacko charmlessness.
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
A series of strenuously oddball vignettes masquerading as a movie.
Los Angeles Times
Jack Mathews
The audience seems limited to the director's inner circle.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
It's as if Downey Sr.'s irreverence and off-the-wall humor couldn't quite co-exist with the heartfelt tribute he intends to make here to his wife and her fellow Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis sufferers.
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Like David Mamet and relative newcomer Quentin Tarantino, Downey writes some of the best dialogue around, and his script sparkles with it.
Variety
Emanuel Levy
The best thing about this bizarre love story (follie de grandeur) between a female pool cleaner and immobile man in wheelchair is that it puts icon Robert Downey behind the camera after long absence; with some luck Patrick Dempsey should become a lead man
Cinematter
Madeleine Williams
Robert Downey Sr directs this overly self-consciously "wacky" day-in-the-life comedy. Unfortunately, even with plenty of talent attached, the film goes nowhere.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
The bottom of the pool.
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
I groaned my way through this black -- and blue -- romantic comedy and then decided I liked it.
AV Club
Nathan Rabin
A sweet, winning diversion that meanders enjoyably on the strength of its laid-back charm.
The Stranger (Seattle, WA)
Chase Burns
You probably have never heard of Hugo Pool and you are very blessed if that's the case.
Cincinnati Enquirer
Margaret A. McGurk
Hugo Pool features an impressive collection of talent, including two of the best actors of their generation -- Sean Penn and Robert Downey Jr. Sadly, their talents are wasted in this muddled mix of romance and attempted satire.
Compuserve
Harvey S. Karten
The picture features a choice ensemble of actors who are starved by the lack of a nourishing script and whose improvised quips and sallies fall far short of hilarity.
Boston Phoenix
Peter Keough
Downey tries to re-create the loopy irreverence of Putney Swope in a '90s setting -- with little success.
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