The Color of Money

The Color of Money (1986) starring Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver, John Turturro. Fast Eddie Felson (Newman) takes on a protégé named Vincent (Cruise) who has huge amounts of natural talent. But Vincent refuses to play the game (nine ball) according to Felson's rules, and the two eventually come to a parting of the ways -- until they meet in a huge nine ball tournament in Atlantic City. There are many things in this script which didn't make sense to me, and the movie's main redeeming feature is Newman's performance (he won an Academy Award). Cruise was just irritating, but Mastrantonio, as his girlfriend Carmen, was extremely fetching. (The film has English subtitles for the hearing-impaired.) Grade: B-