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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0786936253139
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: ESPN Video
Manufacturer: ESPN Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: ESPN Video
Release Date: March 29, 2005
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 47802
Studio: ESPN Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 25, 2004
Editorial Review:
Description:
Golden Globe nominee Tom Sizemore stars as baseball's talented and troubled hit king Pete Rose in the ESPN original movie HUSTLE. Pete Rose earned the nickname 'Charlie Hustle' for his aggressive style on and off the field. Ironically, the same mind-set that made him Major League Baseball's all-time hit leader ultimately led to his demise. Shortly after achieving baseball immortality, Rose headed down a dark road that would lead to lifetime banishment from the game he loved. Based on the facts set forth in the 1989 Dowd Report, HUSTLE chronicles the fascinating inside life of one of baseball's greatest players. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, this DVD is the hard-hitting story of an American icon's stunning fall from grace -- complete with exclusive bonus footage and interviews from the ESPN archives.
Amazon.com:
Hustle is a taut, engrossing made-for-television feature about the downward spiral of Pete Rose in the late 1980s, when the baseball legend's gambling addiction led to his banishment from the game. Tom Sizemore perfectly captures Rose's blithe, avuncular public personality and more secretive, worrisome signs of eroding integrity as betting losses lead the Cincinnati Reds' manager to start wagering on baseball itself--including the fortunes of his own team. Peter Bogdanovich (Saint Jack) directs an excellent cast (including Dash Mihok as the stooge who gets suckered into paying Rose's debts to a lethal bookie), and teases out a fascinating psychodrama about the depths of denial and depravity ordinary people will reach to bask in a superstar's sunlight. Melissa DiMarco makes much of a thin role as Rose's wife, Carol, whose faith in her husband's essential goodness never wavers even as she retaliates against his degeneration. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Poor biography of Pete Rose's fall
Tom Sizemore has been in some outstanding performances but I for one do not feel that he resembles Pete Rose. In some ways yes, he evokes the anger and power trip as well as the fan friendly appearance that Rose was known for, but in the end I did not feel that Sizemore should have been cast as Rose, to me it just was not the best fit.
The movie portrays a lot of truth but one has to wonder how much is actually embellished. It was interesting to get a behind the scenes look into how ... Read More
Rating:  - Boring
Its like watching a bad saturday movie but its cheap so it the cost out ways any recentment that its a bad movie. like to see them do a movie about the big red machine, but not if its as boring as this
Rating:  - All You Need To Know About Pete Rose
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Eye opening
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, ... Read More
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