Mr. Smith Gets a Hustler

Name: Mr. Smith Gets a Hustler
Genre: Drama
Released: June 21, 2002
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 22

2002

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Culture Q Connection | Release Date: June 21, 2002 | R

Summary: A young hustler's encounter with an older man has unintended consequences.

Director: Ian McCrudden

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 91 min

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TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

The film is an encouraging effort from McCrudden -- he manages to avoid the staginess of the recurring two-characters-in-a-hotel-room set-up -- and features a standout performance from Williams. Read full review

Dave Kehr

Instead of deepening the material, however, the narrative twists feel like purely formal interventions, intended to keep the film moving toward its foregone, heavily moralistic conclusion. Mr. Smith Gets a Hustler is faultlessly professional but finally slight. Read full review

Jessica Winter

The high-concept scenario soon proves preposterous, the acting is robotically italicized, and truth-in-advertising hounds take note: There's very little hustling on view, though McCrudden does arrange for his lead gym rat to be shirtless as often as possible. Read full review

Megan Lehmann

Kicks off with an inauspicious premise, mopes through a dreary tract of virtually plotless meanderings and then ends with a whimper. Read full review

Jack Mathews

This will qualify as a spoiler only for those who have never seen a really bad movie before. Read full review

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