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''Hard Eight'' is a 1996 American neo-noir crime thriller film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow and Samuel L. Jackson. There are also brief appearances by Robert Ridgely, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Melora Walters.〔Conrad, Mark T. ''The Philosophy of Neo-Noir'', 2009. The University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 081319217X.〕 The film, originally titled ''Sydney'', was Anderson's first feature; Hall, Reilly, Ridgely, Hoffman and Walters acted in Anderson's subsequent films. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Festival de Cannes: Hard Eight )〕 The film was expanded from the principal idea of Anderson's short film ''Cigarettes & Coffee'' (1993). ==Plot== Sydney, a gambler in his 60s, finds a young man, John, sitting forlornly outside a diner and offers to give him a cigarette and buy him a cup of coffee. Sydney learns that John is trying to raise enough money for his mother's burial. He offers to drive him to Las Vegas and teach him how to make some money and survive. Skeptical at first, John agrees. Two years later, John, having gotten the money for the funeral, has become Sydney's protégé. John has a new friend named Jimmy, who does security work, and is attracted to Clementine, a cocktail waitress in Reno. Sydney encounters Clementine at night, learning she moonlights as a prostitute. Although Clementine believes Sydney might want to sleep with her, Sydney actually wants to set her up with John. Sydney gets a frantic late-night phone call. John summons him to a motel. He arrives to find John and Clementine holding a hostage. He turns out to be a customer who refuses to pay Clementine for sex. John also reveals that he and Clementine eloped. The situation is dangerous, because John and Clementine have called the hostage's wife to demand $300. They do not have a plan, and they have beaten the hostage badly. Sydney manages to smooth the situation over. He then advises John and Clementine to leave town and head to Niagara Falls for their honeymoon. After the two leave, Sydney is confronted by Jimmy, who threatens to tell John that Sydney killed John's father unless Sydney gives him money. Sydney pays up, but later sneaks into Jimmy's house and kills him. He then returns to the same diner where he met John. The film ends with Sydney covering up blood on his shirt cuff. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hard Eight (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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