Poolboy: Drowning Out the Fury

Looking for something that actually makes you laugh, available in the US on Amazon Prime Video and fuboTV? Poolboy: Drowning Out the Fury delivers. A tight runtime that never overstays its welcome. 40 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. Kevin Sorbo is the obvious draw, but the whole ensemble earns its laughs. Available now on Amazon Prime Video — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

Part of the current wave of titles people are actually watching, Poolboy: Drowning Out the Fury earns its spot. Poolboy: Drowning Out the Fury gets the fundamentals right first, then finds room to get weird with it. In this unearthed lost movie from 1990 that the studio deemed too terrible to release, a Vietnam Veteran Sal Bando(Sorbo), tortured by his past as a Poolboy returns home to Van Nuys, California, and a country he doesn't recognize, in which it seems only Mexicans run pool-cleaning companies. Bando sets off on a brutal mission to reclaim his "rightful" vocation and enact revenge on the man(Trejo) who killed his wife and son. The chemistry Kevin Sorbo and Danny Trejo bring to it does a lot of the heavy lifting. It hit screens in 2011. What keeps Poolboy: Drowning Out the Fury from feeling disposable is a cast that clearly understands the material better than the format usually demands. There is real craft here, even in the moments that do not fully land.

Poolboy: Drowning Out the Fury is the kind of thing you put on in the background and end up fully watching. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single evening. Kevin Sorbo anchors an ensemble with real chemistry. Genuinely funny, consistently, across the whole run.

Poolboy: Drowning Out the Fury was released in 2011, directed by Garrett Brawith. The full 90-minute film is available to watch now. Find exactly where it's streaming below, and TV Butler Pro makes it effortless to track your progress as you go. Just search the name, and Butler finds it instantly, tells you which service has it, and remembers exactly where you left off.