Hugo Pool (1997) on Netflix
Hugo Dugay cleans swimming pools across Los Angeles in a drought. She is drawn to Floyd Gaylen, a customer with ALS, and she looks after her needy parents, Minerva and Henry.
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Plot summary
Hugo Dugay makes her living cleaning swimming pools around Los Angeles with a small company called Hugo Pool. Her round takes up a single day, and a drought interferes with the water supply she depends on for the job, with many pools waiting on her list. Her customers are an eccentric lot, among them Chick Chicalini, a mobster, and Franz Mazur, a filmmaker. Hugo also has her parents, Minerva and Henry, to look after, and both of them are needy. One of the pools on her round belongs to Floyd Gaylen, a man with ALS, and Hugo finds herself drawn to him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Hugo Pool (1997)
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- During the shooting of Hugo Pool, Robert Downey Jr. was in the midst of a serious drug addiction; he was described as thin, pale and sickly and would deliver his lines in bursts of manic energy.
