The Squeeze
The movie is about a notorious gambler who discovers a talented but modest young golfer in a small rural town with uncommon golf skills. And he tries to convince the golfer to join forces with him in hustling matches against other gamblers and their ringers. Now the game becomes life and death.
23 July 1970, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
2 November 1952, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
4 June 1984, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
16 March 1980, Olympia Fields, Illinois, USA
April 16, 2015
A third act twist renders everything null and void and seriously strains anything mildly resembling reality.
April 16, 2015
Imagine: Death threats. A $1 million bet. And it all rests on one. Round. Of golf. There's a reason thrillers aren't set on the fairway.
May 01, 2015
Within the legacy of golf movies, this subpar thriller doesn't reach the leaderboard.
April 14, 2015
Bits of characters and scenes suggest a less cheesy or more breezy movie could have resulted from this.
April 17, 2015
Worthy addition to the annals of golf movies and a decent gambling-caper film, marred by a subpar final act.
April 16, 2015
Between plot and character, there are definitely 18 holes in "The Squeeze."
April 16, 2015
Won't efface memories of the best caper pictures. Golfers, however, may well find it a pleasant diversion. At least it shouldn't tee them off.
April 27, 2015
A moralizing, paint-by-numbers parable lifted right out of the Hollywood hack playbook.
April 16, 2015
There's a game of conscience being played alongside golf, yet "The Squeeze" never achieves urgency.
April 13, 2015
'The Squeeze' boasts an opening sequence with the wildest golf action I've ever seen on screen, and the last part of the film offers lots of suspense. One of my favorite golf movies.
April 17, 2015
Here's a movie that would benefit from being broken up by late-night television commercials.
April 15, 2015
For much of its running time, it delivers a perfectly breezy, entertaining story, but then the third act trips everything up.
