Rent 52 Pick-Up (1986)
3.1 of 5 from 80 ratings
1h 46min
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- Synopsis:
- Harry Mitchell (Roy Scheider), a wealthy businessman unfaithful to his wife (Ann-Margret) for the first time in 22 years now finds himself victim of a sordid blackmail attempt. Refusing to give into the demands of his dangerous blackmailer (John Glover), Mitchell is forced deeper into a plot of kidnapping and murder.
- Actors:
- Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity, John Glover, Robert Trebor, Lonny Chapman, Kelly Preston, Doug McClure, Clarence Williams III, Alex Henteloff, Michelle Walker, Philip Bartko, Tom Byron, Herschel Savage, Ron Jeremy, Amber Lynn, Sharon Mitchell, Ines Ochoa, Allyson Palmeter, Katherine Poland
- Directors:
- John Frankenheimer
- Producers:
- Menahem Golan, Yoram Globus
- Writers:
- Elmore Leonard, John Steppling
- Studio:
- MGM Home Entertainment
- Genres:
- Thrillers
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 17/10/2016
- Run Time:
- 110 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 2.0
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio commentary by critics Glenn Kenny and Doug Brod recorded exclusively for this release Hardcore Cameos, a guide to the many cameo appearances by pornographic actors in '52 Pick-Up' Theatrical Trailer
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Reviews (1) of 52 Pick-Up
Bad Hand - 52 Pick-Up review by griggs
Frankenheimer’s neo-noir feels like a hand of cards nobody really wanted to play. The kidnap-blackmail setup has the makings of a lean thriller, and he shoots the LA grime with real conviction. Roy Scheider is quietly compelling, and Ann-Margret is frankly better than the film deserves; a few more scenes between them might have been the ace this needed.
But 52 Pick-Up mostly just shrugs. The sleaze lands heavily rather than edgily, several sequences curdle into outright misogyny, and there’s little wit or plot ingenuity to compensate. The film keeps confusing ugliness with edge. Elmore Leonard adapted his own novel, which makes the flat dialogue even stranger. You keep waiting for the clever play that never comes.
Grimly watchable, mind. More a chore than a thriller.
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