Vincent Gardenia and Jake LaMotta (theRaging Bullboxer) appear in bit cameo roles as bartenders.Plot SynopsisBefore the credits, the film opens with existential anti-hero "Fast" Eddie Felson (Paul Newman) and his elderly manager Charlie Burns (Myron McCormick) entering a local pool hall - the Homestead Bar and Grill, located two or three hours drive from Pittsburgh.Marty asked Lorraine to the dance initially, and as they sat in a parked car, she made sexual advances toward him after taking a swig of liquor and smoking a cigarette - and then removed her jacket and kissed him passionately.That night, as she shut her eyes while listening o music, Nancy went into a momentary dream-state:the wallpaper behind Nancy began to pulsate as the sinister Freddy briefly emergedIt dawned on Kris also that evening, after looking at old photos of Dean and herself as children, that she had been linked with Dean all the way back to their childhood - but she told her mother Nora (Lia Mortensen): "I don't remember knowing Dean before high school." In the crowd, the two watched as a chained chimpanzee named Aldo (David Chow) was brutally treated and beaten by officers, and then protectively rescued by a sympathetic African-American named Mr.With a production budget of $10 million, and grossed only $1 million (domestic) and almost $5 million (worldwide).