Apple TVThe 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
Apple TV
Google PlayBias 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
Apple TVGoogle PlayDetailed 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 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
8.5
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
User Ratings
7.9
7.7
Critic Ratings
9.4
9.0
More Like This
Traditional
7.0
Fatal Attraction
(1987)
Political: Leans Right
Diversity: Low
Leans Traditional
7.0
The Lost Boys
(1987)
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Neutral
Leans Traditional
7.9
42nd Street
(1933)
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Leans Traditional
6.9
Duel in the Sun
(1946)
Political: Leans Right
Diversity: Low
Traditional
7.5
Tender Mercies
(1983)
Political: Leans Right
Diversity: Low
Leans Traditional
8.3
A Star Is Born
(1954)
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Leans Traditional
7.6
Road to Perdition
(2002)
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Leans Traditional
7.4
Random Harvest
(1942)
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Leans Traditional
7.7
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
(1923)
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Traditional
8.0
Way Down East
(1920)
Political: Leans Right
Diversity: Low
Leans Traditional
7.3
Alexander's Ragtime Band
(1938)
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Leans Traditional
7.7
A Place in the Sun
(1951)
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Traditional
7.6
Titanic
(1953)
Political: Leans Right
Diversity: Low
Leans Traditional
8.3
Roman Holiday
(1953)
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Leans Traditional
8.6
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
(2004)
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Leans Traditional
7.8
The Good Earth
(1937)
Political: Leans Right
Diversity: Low
Leans Traditional
7.8
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
(1969)
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Leans Traditional
6.6
Dan in Real Life
(2007)
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Leans Traditional
8.6
The Heiress
(1949)
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Leans Traditional
7.7
Waterloo Bridge
(1940)
Political: Center
Diversity: Low