Product Details

• Actors: Tom Sizemore, Greg Ellwand, Rick Reid (II), Eric Weinthal, Dash Mihok
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: French, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Genius Products/Vivendi Visual
• DVD Release Date: March 29, 2005
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000FVR1TW
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #143,780 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Hustle" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 06/20/2006

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eye opening, March 24, 2005

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David E. Levine (Peekskill , NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hustle (DVD)

I saw this movie on ESPN several times. It is an eye opener, if factually correct. Tom Sizemore plays Pete Rose and depicts him getting stooges to place bets for him. Rose's complicity in gambling on baseball is no longer in question, indeed, the movie closes with actual footage of Rose making admissions. What was a revelation to me was the depiction of Rose as a totally self centered user. Dash Mihok is very convincing as a sucker Rose uses to place bets for him and, as Rose gets more deeply involved, Rose cajoles him into laying out money on his behalf. Rose was smooth and he was adept at sucking others in and assuring them that all is OK with breezy assurances and back slapping. He had no real friends, only poor suckers who, starry eyed at being part of a celebrity's inner circle, were taken advantage of. They were Rose's "friends" only so long as they were useful to him. Otherwise, Rose would dump them and not return their calls.

Rose comes across as a prize BS artist who, cajoles and gets the celebrity stricken hanger on, played by Mihok, to do his dirty work. Rose's sin of betting on baseball, and particularly the Reds, was unforgivable but, not nearly as unforgivable as was his use of others. He ends up smooth talking his stooge rather than paying him back the money he owed. In fact, through his lawyer, Rose attempted to make it appear that he was doing the poor guy a favor when he paid back only a portion of the debt. Being involved in gambling was not half as bad as dragging others in with him and then attempting to leave them holding the bag. I am fully aware that filmakers resort to dramatic license but, if Rose's amoral use of others is subtanially true, then he certainly should never, ever, be allowed into baseball again. Perhaps, he should be allowed into the hall of fame, so long as his plaque does not gloss over his misdeeds. However, he should never be allowed on a baseball field in any official capacity.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars All You Need To Know About Pete Rose, March 31, 2005

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G. Abbate "gjadrums" (Surprise, Arizona United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hustle (DVD)

This movie does a pretty good job of showing what Pete Rose is about.....himself. He may have admitted to betting on baseball and the Reds after fourteen years of denial but he believed then and now that he is bigger than the game. The movie shows this.
The special features on this DVD are very good. It has interviews with the investigator John Dowd, Fay Vincent & Paul Janzen who was dumb enough to listen to Pete. Also included is the press conference with Bart Giamatti & the interview where he admits his guilt but STILL denies that they showed him the evidence that they had against him. Just check out these interviews and the movie and you'll agree that Pete doesn't belong in the Hall Of Fame.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The greatest player not in baseball's Hall of Fame, and why, September 11, 2011

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Annie Van Auken (Planet Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hustle (DVD)

One thing made apparent from the extras included with this very first ESPN TV movie is that the pleasant-looking yuppie of the teleplay whom Pete Rose convinces to place bets for him with mob bookies looks like a thug in real life.

The story mainly sticks to Rose's gambling addiction and his self-inflicted downfall from placing bets on his own team, then lying about these and showing no remorse after being caught.

Sizemore gapes, mugs and exaggerates Pete's ambling monkey gait.

An only-OK sports bio directed by Peter Bogdonovich.

Includes these extras:

ABC PRIMETIME LIVE - Charlie Gibson interviews Pete Rose (7/18/89)
SPORTS CENTURY - interview: Pete Rose (6/13/98)
Bart Giamatti press conference: "Banishment for life" (9/9/89)
Paul Janszen interview excerpts (12/18/02)
ESPN interview: Pete Rose ((1/8/04)
Tommy Gioioso on P. Rose (9/24/89)
ESPN interview: atty John David ('90)


Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 IMDb viewer poll rating.

(4.2) Hustle (TV-2004) - Tom Sizemore/Dash Mihok/George DiCenzo/Jayne Eastwood