When Hugo Pool was released to a small number of theaters last year, it was savaged by most critics as a self-indulgent, unwatchable mess. Although the film is to some extent a shambles—full of ...

Quirky comedy-drama about a swimming-pool cleaner (Alyssa Milano) who hires her drug-addicted father (Malcolm McDowell) and gambler mother (Cathy Moriarty), then finds love with a young man (Patrick ...