Hugo Pool Movie Review 1997

Pool cleaner Hugo Dugay (Milano) has to clean the pools of 44 backyard eccentrics. Reluctantly, she must enlist the aid of her gambler mom (Moriarty) and drug addict father (McDowell). Bizarre characters abound, including Downey Jr. overacting as Hungarian film director Franz Mazur, whose accent changes with each line. Most interesting is Dempsey as ALS-afflicted Floyd Galen. The romance between Floyd and Hugo supplies the most sensitive and well-acted sequences. Disappointing, long-anticipated outing from director Downey Sr. (this is his first directorial effort in six years) who shared writing duties with wife Laura, who died of ALS in 1994.

Distribution

BMG Entertainment, 1540 Broadway, New York, NY 10036-4039, Phone: (212)930-4000, URL: http://www.bmg.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 92 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

L.A., Family Ties, Drug Use & Abuse, Physical Problems, Strained Suburbia

Screenplay

Laura Downey

Cast

Alyssa Milano, Patrick Dempsey, Robert Downey, Malcolm McDowell, Cathy Moriarty, Sean Penn, Richard Lewis, Chuck Barris

Cinematography

Joe Montgomery

Director

Robert Downey

Music

Danilo Perez