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* TooDumbToLive: Jimmy says to the man he’s blackmailing, “I’m not a killer… like you.” He does not consider the implications of that statement.
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* CastingGag: Creator/PhilipBakerHall's character Sydney is intended to be an expansion of his mob-affiliated character also named Sidney in the film ''Film/MidnightRun''. Director Anderson was fascinated by the character and his desire to know more about who he was led him to write the role. This also, in a way, could be seen as an inter-film example of AscendedExtra.
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Creator/PhilipSeymourHoffman, who would become Anderson's most frequent collaborator before Hoffman's death, appears in one scene as an obnoxious gambler.
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Creator/PhilipSeymourHoffman, who would become Anderson's most frequent collaborator before Hoffman's his death, appears in one scene as an obnoxious gambler.
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''Hard Eight'' is a 1996 crime thriller written and directed by Creator/PaulThomasAnderson. It was his first feature film. It stars Philip Baker Hall, Creator/JohnCReilly, Creator/GwynethPaltrow and Creator/SamuelLJackson.
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''Hard Eight'' is a 1996 crime thriller written and directed by Creator/PaulThomasAnderson. It was his first feature film. It stars Philip Baker Hall, Creator/PhilipBakerHall, Creator/JohnCReilly, Creator/GwynethPaltrow and Creator/SamuelLJackson.
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* TheCameo: P.T. Anderson's father, [[Creator/{{Ghoulardi}} Ernie Anderson]], who died one year after this movie was released, has a brief cameo as the man standing in front of John when the matches in John's pocket catch fire.
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* TheCameo: P.T. Anderson's father, [[Creator/{{Ghoulardi}} Ernie Anderson]], Creator/ErnieAnderson, who died one year after this movie was released, has a brief cameo as the man standing in front of John when the matches in John's pocket catch fire.
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Sydney (Hall) is a ProfessionalGambler who finds John (Reilly) outside a diner one day, broke and alone. Sydney offers to help John find a way to make some money; John at first resists, thinking Sydney is a DirtyOldMan, but eventually agrees to be helped. [[TimeSkip Two years later]], Sydney has become a ParentalSubstitute for John, and the two are inseparable. John ends up falling in love with, and marrying, Clementine (Paltrow), a cocktail waitress/prostitute. However, they get into a bad situation that Sydney has to help them out of. To make matters, worse, John's friend Jimmy (Jackson) knows about [[DarkSecret Sydney's past]].
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Sydney (Hall) is a ProfessionalGambler who finds John (Reilly) outside a diner one day, broke and alone. Sydney offers to help John find a way to make some money; John at first resists, thinking Sydney is a DirtyOldMan, but eventually agrees to be helped. [[TimeSkip Two years later]], Sydney has become a ParentalSubstitute for John, and the two are inseparable. John ends up falling in love with, and marrying, Clementine (Paltrow), a cocktail waitress/prostitute. However, they get into a bad situation that Sydney has to help them out of. To make matters, worse, John's friend Jimmy (Jackson) knows about [[DarkSecret Sydney's past]].
past]], and knows just why Sydney has taken John under his wing.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Syndney's endlessly one for a witty turn of phrase.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Syndney's Sydney's endlessly one for a witty turn of phrase.
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* ProfessionalGambler: Sidney, and he mentors John into one, himself. Jimmy is apparently one, himself.
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* ProfessionalGambler: Sidney, Sydney, and he mentors John into one, himself. Jimmy is apparently one, himself.
