A movie (Second Chance) made in Taiwan starring Jennifer Barretta and Allison Fisher

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justinb386

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I was just thinking about a movie that Jennifer Barretta stared in (called 9 Ball), so I looked her up on IMDB to see if she has been in any other movies, and it turns out that she has 4 or 5 credits to her name on IMDB.

Her latest credit that I seen on her IMDB page is a movie called Second Chance, and it also stars Allison Fisher (my all time favorite female pool player), and I would love to see Allison in anything.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4057142/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1

I was very surprised to see that there has been no talk about the movie on the IMDB forum. I am also curious about the movie 9 Ball, but I do not know where it available to watch (maybe it came out on DVD?). Anyways, I think it is very cool that her and Allison Fisher made a movie together.

This is off subject, but do any of you think that there will ever be a big budget movie about pool (like the Color of Money or The Hustler) in the near future?

Does Hollywood just not care about the game of billiards in the least?

It is such a great game, and sad that it does not have a bigger fan base in the public and film industry.

I can only think of 5 movies about pool that had decent acting in them (below)

The Color of Money

The Hustler

Kiss Shot with Whoopi Goldberg (the pool playing was very silly, but at least the acting was not bad)

The Baltimore Bullet

Poolhall Junkies

Any others that I missed that actually had decent acting in them?

Sorry for going way off subject again (I guess that this 1 thread should be 3 different threads).
 
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There was something in the very early initial stages about a possible movie of Robin Dodson's early life. I lost track of what happened. I don't think it went forward or it may still be in development.
 
That movie called 9 ball movie really sucks out loud !!!!! Eric moreman.

This movie 9 ball the movie really sucks out loud just a bad movie eric robert moreman akron ohio 44314 start over and make it the right way eric robert moreman said so.

justinb386 said:
i was just thinking about a movie that jennifer barretta stared in (called 9 ball), so i looked her up on imdb to see if she has been in any other movies, and it turns out that she has 4 or 5 credits to her name on imdb.

Her latest credit that i seen on her imdb page is a movie called second chance, and it also stars allison fisher (my all time favorite female pool player), and i would love to see allison in anything.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4057142/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1

i was very surprised to see that there has been no talk about the movie on the imdb forum. I am also curious about the movie 9 ball, but i do not know where it available to watch (maybe it came out on dvd?). Anyways, i think it is very cool that her and allison fisher made a movie together.

This is off subject, but do any of you think that there will ever be a big budget movie about pool (like the color of money or the hustler) in the near future?

Does hollywood just not care about the game of billiards in the least?

It is such a great game, and sad that it does not have a bigger fan base in the public and film industry.

I can only think of 5 movies about pool that had decent acting in them (below)

the color of money

the hustler

kiss shot with whoopi goldberg (the pool playing was very silly, but at least the acting was not bad)

the baltimore bullet

poolhall junkies

any others that i missed that actually had decent acting in them?

Sorry for going way off subject again (i guess that this 1 thread should be 3 different threads).
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I don't think the term "decent acting" and Poolhall Junkies can be used in the same post. It's really a early '60's biker movie with tables and cues instead of Harleys and Triumphs.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. I love my Harley and Gold Crown. As a movie it might be a fun way to kill an hour or two, but decent???
 
Well, I think that compared too a lot of other pool movies that have been made (with horrendous acting), Pool Hall junkies was really good in comparison. The pool was not good, but the acting was decent. Had some great actors in it that I thought were great in the movie (Chazz Palminteri, Michael Rosenbaum from my old favorite show Smallville, Glenn Plummer who I think is a good actor, and Christopher Walken). So, I thought the acting was good (but not the pool playing). It would be so great if they could make a great pool movie that not only has good pool but decent acting too. Poolhall Junkies was a fun movie to watch I thought.

Buzzard II said:
I don't think the term "decent acting" and Poolhall Junkies can be used in the same post. It's really a early '60's biker movie with tables and cues instead of Harleys and Triumphs.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. I love my Harley and Gold Crown. As a movie it might be a fun way to kill an hour or two, but decent???
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Thanks. I heard that maybe the APA had something to do with the financing of the movie. So what about that "Second Chance" movie. I wonder if it might be any good if it ever comes out.

ctyhntr said:
9 Ball the Movie was available on DVD, and at a discounted price if you were a member of the APA league. The main website appears to be down, so I'm not sure where else other than Amazon and ebay you can find a DVD for purchase.

It's available for viewing online at Hulu and Amazon.
http://www.hulu.com/watch/522998
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CH0T2XW
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justinb386 said:
Thanks. I heard that maybe the APA had something to do with the financing of the movie. So what about that "Second Chance" movie. I wonder if it might be any good if it ever comes out.
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yea..they paid for it lol. That's why it's a big apa commercial. It's ok ..but the acting was pretty terrible on the hand staring at Jennifer barretta for an hour and half aint all that bad lol
 
The preview looked pretty silly. Will Hollywood ever think about pool in the future (with a big budget and big name actors)?

trob said:
yea..they paid for it lol. That's why it's a big apa commercial. It's ok ..but the acting was pretty terrible on the hand staring at Jennifer barretta for an hour and half aint all that bad lol
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justinb386 said:
I was just thinking about a movie that Jennifer Barretta stared in (called 9 Ball), so I looked her up on IMDB to see if she has been in any other movies, and it turns out that she has 4 or 5 credits to her name on IMDB.

Her latest credit that I seen on her IMDB page is a movie called Second Chance, and it also stars Allison Fisher (my all time favorite female pool player), and I would love to see Allison in anything.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4057142/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1

I was very surprised to see that there has been no talk about the movie on the IMDB forum. I am also curious about the movie 9 Ball, but I do not know where it available to watch (maybe it came out on DVD?). Anyways, I think it is very cool that her and Allison Fisher made a movie together.

This is off subject, but do any of you think that there will ever be a big budget movie about pool (like the Color of Money or The Hustler) in the near future?

Does Hollywood just not care about the game of billiards in the least?

It is such a great game, and sad that it does not have a bigger fan base in the public and film industry.

I can only think of 5 movies about pool that had decent acting in them (below)

The Color of Money

The Hustler

Kiss Shot with Whoopi Goldberg (the pool playing was very silly, but at least the acting was not bad)

The Baltimore Bullet

Poolhall Junkies

Any others that I missed that actually had decent acting in them?

Sorry for going way off subject again (I guess that this 1 thread should be 3 different threads).
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worse movie I have ever seen was 9 ball. What a joke!!!
 
spartan said:
Most sports movies are just plain boring and bad eg. Any Given Sunday, Legend of Bagger Vance
Some are hits because of big stars eg. Color of Money, Major League
One of my fave is The Big Lebowski but then that really isnt a sports movie
Anyway pool is more entertaining as props or for laughs and not as the main plot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uau5y_jnVpE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuU60r7VT30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTsyqBMVhcQ

:D
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well I liked legend of bagger vance.. and I don't remember ever seeing the big lebowski on a sports movie list? They bowl..but thats a small part of it.
 
When I first came on board here at AZ, Pool Hall Junkies was universally panned, while The Hustler was revered, and The Color of Money was tolerated. If you want to become unpopular quickly, express your admiration for PHJ here. :-)

According to IMBD, PHJ cost 4 million to make, and only took in 562K. So the producers and backers took a bath. It was written and directed by one of us pool player, a guy named Mars Callahan. He was able to get names on board such as Christopher Walken, Chazz Palminteri, and Rod Steiger.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0273982

Hollywood is in the business of making money, just like the Burt Gordon, the stakehorse in The Hustler. With that mindset, I doubt they will directly back another movie again. They will probably take a bet on small independently produced movies, such as 9-ball The Movie, but we pan that one as well. So, what incentive (financial or otherwise) for Hollywood to cater to us?

justinb386 said:
The preview looked pretty silly. Will Hollywood ever think about pool in the future (with a big budget and big name actors)?
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ctyhntr said:
When I first came on board here at AZ, Pool Hall Junkies was universally panned, while The Hustler was revered, and The Color of Money was tolerated. If you want to become unpopular quickly, express your admiration for PHJ here. :-)

According to IMBD, PHJ cost 4 million to make, and only took in 562K. So the producers and backers took a bath. It was written and directed by one of us pool player, a guy named Mars Callahan. He was able to get names on board such as Christopher Walken, Chazz Palminteri, and Rod Steiger.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0273982

Hollywood is in the business of making money, just like the Burt Gordon, the stakehorse in The Hustler. With that mindset, I doubt they will directly back another movie again. They will probably take a bet on small independently produced movies, such as 9-ball The Movie, but we pan that one as well. So, what incentive (financial or otherwise) for Hollywood to cater to us?
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Some trivia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poolhall_Junkies
Didn't know crazy Walken can play pool.. Just love his roles :D


Christopher Walken made the difficult trick shot to win the match against Tara's (Eastwood) boss on the first take. He was supposed to make a "trial run" for the scene, but he asked that the cameras go ahead and roll, in case he happened to make it on his first try, and he did.

There were no camera tricks or special film editing used for any of the billiards shots in the film, although many of the special "trick shots" (other than the one above) were performed by billiards legend Robert "Cotton" Leblanc. Mike Massey, another world renowned trick shot performer, has a cameo appearance as "St. Louis" Louie in the film as well.
The band scene was filmed at the Dead Goat Saloon in the Arrowhead Plaza in Salt Lake City, Utah. The only differences between the movie version and the real saloon are the drapes behind the band and that the dance floor does not have round tables.

In real life Mars Callahan is an accomplished pool player who met co-writer Chris Corso in a pool hall where each was trying to hustle the other. After a bitterly contested game (neither will tell who actually won) the two became best friends. Swapping war stories about their mutual experiences playing pool, the two decided to write a script based on their experiences and observations. Two weeks later the script was completed, but it would take another ten years to get it to the big screen.

Rod Steiger's last film.
 
That is a really interesting story. I really liked the movie (not as a pool movie), but as a good comedy (kind of similar to Swingers I think). I thought most of the acting was good, and I enjoyed the movie. I could tell that Mars Callahan was a decent player in real life. And I always thought that The Color of Money was really silly too (the pool playing in it), but I really loved the soundtrack, and the acting was great. My all time favorite (by a long shot) has always been The Hustler. Great story, great acting, and great pool playing. And that was the type of movie where you did not even need to be a fan of pool to really enjoy. Anyone that is just a fan or romance and drama movies would really enjoy the movie I think. Loved the movie as a pool movie though.

spartan said:
Some trivia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poolhall_Junkies
Didn't know crazy Walken can play pool.. Just love his roles :D


Christopher Walken made the difficult trick shot to win the match against Tara's (Eastwood) boss on the first take. He was supposed to make a "trial run" for the scene, but he asked that the cameras go ahead and roll, in case he happened to make it on his first try, and he did.

There were no camera tricks or special film editing used for any of the billiards shots in the film, although many of the special "trick shots" (other than the one above) were performed by billiards legend Robert "Cotton" Leblanc. Mike Massey, another world renowned trick shot performer, has a cameo appearance as "St. Louis" Louie in the film as well.
The band scene was filmed at the Dead Goat Saloon in the Arrowhead Plaza in Salt Lake City, Utah. The only differences between the movie version and the real saloon are the drapes behind the band and that the dance floor does not have round tables.

In real life Mars Callahan is an accomplished pool player who met co-writer Chris Corso in a pool hall where each was trying to hustle the other. After a bitterly contested game (neither will tell who actually won) the two became best friends. Swapping war stories about their mutual experiences playing pool, the two decided to write a script based on their experiences and observations. Two weeks later the script was completed, but it would take another ten years to get it to the big screen.

Rod Steiger's last film.
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I imagine that the investors eventually made a profit out of the movie (over the years that it has been out on DVD). I can understand why it did not do so well in the theatres.

ctyhntr said:
When I first came on board here at AZ, Pool Hall Junkies was universally panned, while The Hustler was revered, and The Color of Money was tolerated. If you want to become unpopular quickly, express your admiration for PHJ here. :-)

According to IMBD, PHJ cost 4 million to make, and only took in 562K. So the producers and backers took a bath. It was written and directed by one of us pool player, a guy named Mars Callahan. He was able to get names on board such as Christopher Walken, Chazz Palminteri, and Rod Steiger.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0273982

Hollywood is in the business of making money, just like the Burt Gordon, the stakehorse in The Hustler. With that mindset, I doubt they will directly back another movie again. They will probably take a bet on small independently produced movies, such as 9-ball The Movie, but we pan that one as well. So, what incentive (financial or otherwise) for Hollywood to cater to us?
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Speaking of sports movies (sorry that this is not pool related), The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005) is my favorite golf related movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388980/?ref_=nv_sr_1), and Tin Cup (1996) was another really great about golf (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117918/?ref_=nv_sr_1). I could mention a lot of other sports movies that I love too (that were not boring in the least, to me anyways). My point is that not all sports movies have been boring (at least not to me). Sorry again for going off the subject of pool.

spartan said:
Most sports movies are just plain boring and bad eg. Any Given Sunday, Legend of Bagger Vance
Some are hits because of big stars eg. Color of Money, Major League
One of my fave is The Big Lebowski but then that really isnt a sports movie
Anyway pool is more entertaining as props or for laughs and not as the main plot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uau5y_jnVpE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuU60r7VT30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTsyqBMVhcQ

:D
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