With a
handsome sidekick setting him up, Danny Basavich, a.k.a. Kid Delicious, posed as a bumbling
slob and won a small fortune in a four - year pool - hustling odyssey.
Playing a fraud, an emotional infant and a moral
slob - who is also a very
handsome and appealing guy - DiCaprio responds with a performance that matches the verbal pyrotechnics of Robert Preston with the physical comedy of Jerry Lewis.