Poolman is a 2023 American comedy mystery film directed, produced, co-written by and starring Chris Pine in his directorial debut. It also stars Annette Bening, DeWanda Wise, Stephen Tobolowsky, Clancy Brown, John Ortiz, Ray Wise, Juliet Mills, Ariana DeBose, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Danny DeVito.
The film premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. It is scheduled to be released in the United States on May 10, 2024.
Premise
A pool cleaner in Los Angeles uncovers a sizeable water heist, one in the same vein as Chinatown.
Cast
- Chris Pine as Darren Barrenman
- Annette Bening as Diane
- DeWanda Wise as TBA
- Stephen Tobolowsky as TBA
- Clancy Brown as TBA
- John Ortiz as TBA
- Ray Wise as Mr. Van Patterson
- Juliet Mills as Mrs. Van Patterson
- Ariana DeBose as TBA
- Jennifer Jason Leigh as Susan
- Danny DeVito as Jack
Release
Poolman’s world premiere took place at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2023. In December 2023, Vertical Entertainment acquired distribution rights to the film. The film is scheduled to be released in the United States on May 10, 2024.
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 23% of 26 critics’ reviews are positive, with an average rating of 3.1/10. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 20 out of 100, based on 9 critics, indicating “generally unfavorable” reviews.
Michael Rechtshaffen, writing for The Hollywood Reporter, called the film a “shrill misfire” and predicted that it would “likely have a tough time finding a home”. Siddhant Adlakha from IndieWire opined that the film was “disastrous” and ” t’s only 100 minutes long, but upward of 99 of those minutes are likely to be spent in silent boredom, if not irritated disbelief at being subjected to such guileless, artless nonsense”.
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