Stickmen is a 2001 New Zealand film directed by Hamish Rothwell and starring Robbie Magasiva.
The screenplay concerns Thomas (Paolo Rotondo), Jack (Robbie Magasiva) and Wayne (Scott Wills), who are the best of mates.
During the high-stakes underground eight-ball tournament run by Daddy (Enrico Mammarella), a Greek crime lord, they encounter a weird and wonderful collection of people on their way to compete for the big prize.
The boys leave the bar and go to a cafe, where they meet Sara (Anne Nordhaus), a waitress who takes a liking to Thomas.
The next morning the three meet up for breakfast where Jack tells them that their first match in the pool tournament will be against two men called Jimmy and Eric, at the Princess Bar.
He will be responsible for driving prostitutes Tess (Emma Nooyen) and Lulu (Luanne Gordon) to their jobs.
Holden arrives and tells Jack and Wayne that their next match will be against the Men in Black, who are rumoured to be very good.
Thomas returns home and finds his girlfriend Marie has packed up his stuff and wants him to leave, having suspected his infidelity.
The next morning at breakfast Jack breaks the news to the other two that their next match will be against "Caller" (Neville Stevenson), and he remarks that the only way they have a hope is if they win the toss.
She meets Thomas at the Bucket Fountain on Cuba Street, where they agree to take their relationship to the next level (being boyfriend and girlfriend).
He explodes in a fit of anger, starts drinking and tells Lulu that Caller is too good and they can't beat him.
Caller, it turns out, is a pierced, bare-chested pool player with dreadlocks who gets his nickname from calling his shots.
Jack objects, knowing that he is the only one who has a chance at winning, but Holden states that since Wayne has stepped up, he has to play.
In a "drunken master" style, Wayne runs the table and beats Caller, who never gets a single shot.
As Holden mentioned earlier in the film, New Zealand pub rules require a player who loses a game without sinking any of his balls to drop his trousers.
Holden, backed up by two of Daddy's thugs wielding machetes, forces Caller to drop his trousers.