Watch Behind the Eight Ball

Sam Evans (Dexter Gregoire), a thirty-something coffee shop owner, is shocked to discover that his long lost father Robert (Peter Cowhig), wants to rekindle a relationship with him after abandoning him and his mother thirty-one years previous. Their journey begins at the local pool circuit level, playing a doubles tournament in a bar. This soon escalates as Sam finds himself proving his love for his father after a terminal illness renders his father incapacitated and unable to compete in the World Pool tournament, a high-stakes and well-known nationwide tournament, a tournament his father was never able to win. It takes us on an emotional roller coaster with the ultimate goal defining what it truly means to be a family.

Behind the Eight Ball is a 2010 drama with a runtime of 1 hour and 41 minutes. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 6.8.