This isn't a horrible movie for a independent film with a clearly small budget; however, the problems are more than the usual and include the production values and unevenness of the performances, particularly some of the secondary - though somewhat key performances - such as that of Abe. The film stock in some cases looked overexposed, in others it looked underlit. The bar, as other's have commented, was far too absent of customers far too frequently and a pimp doesn't make a living off, essentially, one hustler (which appears to be the case until the pimp forces Abe into hustling).
The two biggest problems were, as someone else so sensible pointed out, the unrealistic aspects of many of the key plot points -- for example, the payment to the hustlers, that the amount of drugs flushed down was $6K, that a drug dealer/pimp would lend out $6K worth of drugs to someone as stupid as the Abe character -- particularly if he was a former addict who potentially could be easily using again, and so forth. The twists were telegraphed a mile away. They were also badly set up and easily so -- that Jack/Jerry would show up on the night Bobby and Mr. Smith were going away; that Bobby would feel it necessary to do one last trick; that Bobby would run away and feel some sense of loyalty to the pimp to need to say goodbye; that Bobby would come home at the exact moment Mr. Smith would be bitching out the alcoholic mother; etc.
This could have been a far more interesting movie if the writer had done some simple research and picked some less obvious plot twists.
The two biggest problems were, as someone else so sensible pointed out, the unrealistic aspects of many of the key plot points -- for example, the payment to the hustlers, that the amount of drugs flushed down was $6K, that a drug dealer/pimp would lend out $6K worth of drugs to someone as stupid as the Abe character -- particularly if he was a former addict who potentially could be easily using again, and so forth. The twists were telegraphed a mile away. They were also badly set up and easily so -- that Jack/Jerry would show up on the night Bobby and Mr. Smith were going away; that Bobby would feel it necessary to do one last trick; that Bobby would run away and feel some sense of loyalty to the pimp to need to say goodbye; that Bobby would come home at the exact moment Mr. Smith would be bitching out the alcoholic mother; etc.
This could have been a far more interesting movie if the writer had done some simple research and picked some less obvious plot twists.