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Rated: R; Genre: Comedy; With: Patrick Dempsey, Robert Downey Jr., Malcolm McDowell and Alyssa Milano
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Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW
HUGO POOL (R) The first film in six years from former counterculture director Robert Downey sets new standards in wacko charmlessness. Hugo (Alyssa Milano), a comely swimming-pool attendant, makes her daily rounds and encounters a flaky collection of addicts and dropouts. As a lunatic who babbles gibberish in assorted unintelligible accents, Robert Downey Jr. is truly his father's son -- a granulated flake off the old block. F
Posted Dec 19, 1997
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