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The Drowning Pool

Play trailer Poster for The Drowning Pool PG,  1975,  1h 48m,  Crime/ Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 53% 15 Reviews Tomatometer 47% 500+ Ratings Popcornmeter
53% Tomatometer 15 Reviews 47% Popcornmeter 500+ Ratings
A New Orleans oil heiress (Joanne Woodward) hires private eye Lew Harper (Paul Newman) to unravel a blackmail scheme.

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Variety Staff Variety Jun 5, 2008
Stylish, improbable, entertaining, superficial, well cast, and totally synthetic. Go to Full Review
A.H. Weiler New York Times May 9, 2005
2/5
As a convoluted caper it generates action rather than character and surface mystery rather than meaning. Go to Full Review
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times Oct 23, 2004
2/4
A confusing and not very exciting private eye caper. Go to Full Review
Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Aug 31, 2021
3/4
The Drowning Pool lacks the freshness of its 1966 predecessor, though Newman can still trade quips with the best of them. Go to Full Review
Jacoba Atlas Los Angeles Free Press Nov 27, 2019
It's not so much that the plot doesn't make sense - most good detective films don't "make sense" - but that you couldn't care less what happens to the people. Go to Full Review
Alberto Abuín Espinof Sep 4, 2019
Paul Newman undergoes all kinds of "games" in which performs with enviable ease, elegance and sarcasm. [Full Review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
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Leia L Feb 12, 2019 This claims, Thanks also for that even though your said site's Tomatometer only has a mediocre 0.5 or 1/2 for its 'seventyfive ( '75 ) ( 'lxxv ) flick ' ' DROWNING Pool, ' ' we want to say that DESPITE S. Rosenberg's FLATLY performed directing, we thought the way Mr. P. Newman's hero ( among others ) makes another set of fine performances happen was one ( 1 ) ( i ) of MANY ways that this more than makes up for that.... See more
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Cast & Crew

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Stuart Rosenberg

Director

Paul Newman

Harper

Joanne Woodward

Iris

Anthony Franciosa

Broussard

Murray Hamilton

Kilbourne

Melanie Griffith

Schuyler

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The Drowning Pool

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Movie Info

Synopsis A New Orleans oil heiress (Joanne Woodward) hires private eye Lew Harper (Paul Newman) to unravel a blackmail scheme.
Director
Stuart Rosenberg
Producer
David Foster, Lawrence Turman
Screenwriter
Tracy Keenan Wynn, Lorenzo Semple Jr., Walter Hill
Production Co
Warner Brothers/Seven Arts
Rating
PG
Genre
Crime, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Sep 1, 2008
Runtime
1h 48m
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