8.5
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Hustler (1961)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 8.5
Overview
Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Bias Dimensions
Political: Leans Right
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Negative
Overview
Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Traditional
Primary
The film's primary focus on individual character development and moral integrity as the solution to personal failings, rather than systemic issues, aligns its dominant themes with conservative values of self-reliance and personal virtue.
The film features a cast predominantly composed of traditional identities, consistent with its era, and does not incorporate intentional race or gender swaps. Its narrative explores themes of ambition and personal struggle without explicitly critiquing or negatively framing traditional identities.
Secondary
The film features subtextual queer themes, primarily through the manipulative character of Bert Gordon, whose predatory control over Eddie carries homoerotic undertones. A minor character, Findley, is depicted stereotypically as effeminate and subservient. These portrayals associate queer identity with villainy and harmful stereotypes, lacking positive counterbalance.
The film "The Hustler" (1961) does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. Its storyline is exclusively focused on the world of professional pool, personal ambition, and a troubled romantic relationship, therefore, the portrayal of transsexual identity is not applicable.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The 1961 film "The Hustler" is a direct adaptation of Walter Tevis's 1959 novel. All major characters, including Eddie Felson, Sarah Packard, Bert Gordon, and Minnesota Fats, maintain their established genders from the source material in the film.
The 1961 film "The Hustler" adapts Walter Tevis's 1959 novel. The main characters, including "Fast Eddie" Felson, Sarah Packard, Bert Gordon, and Minnesota Fats, are portrayed by actors whose race aligns with the implied or established race of the characters in the source material. No character's race was changed from the original canon.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.9
7.7
Critic Ratings
9.4
9.0
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