This movie could have been a lot better with a lot less Charles Durning. He's a great actor but his character should have been edited down some. It was as if the indie filmmaker was so happy to have a very talented "heavy" (literal and otherwise referring to a bad guy) appear in his film that he had to devote a lot of screen time to him. (He had extra weight added to his already large girth and seemed like he was trying to emulate the Orson Welles character in "Touch of Evil".) (Durning's put-on accent was almost exactly the same as "Doc Hopper" in "The Muppet Movie".) More should have been focused on Brooke Shield's character, "Tilt", a rebellious young girl who is very good at pinball. Although I don't think she has a very fitting nickname; calling a pinball champion "Tilt" is like calling a football player "Clip", isn't it? But nonetheless, this movie was wasted on long bouts of dialog between Durning and Shields, and Durning and Ken Marshall who plays a young musician who uses Tilt to save up money for a demo. Also there was too much time wasted on Marshall's character as he and a very bad acting buddy try swindling people until they meet their prodigy pinball queen who can help them rake up dough by means of hustling; the hustling scenes were good but there should have been more of them. All in all this is a so-so little movie, relaxing to watch on an afternoon when you don't have to work. I bought the VHS and I don't know if I'll ever watch it again but it was okay while it lasted. I guess what I'm trying to say is the film lived up to the name. It was alright for a while, and then just kind of... titled.
Review of Tilt
