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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT EAN: 0027616077172 Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Item Dimensions: Label: MGM (Video & DVD) Languages: Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD) MPN: M107717 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 12, 2007 Running Time: 110 minutes Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) Theatrical Release Date: November 07, 1986 Editorial Review: Product Description: Harry Mitchell an L.A. manufacturer with a fancy car a nice house and a wife running for city council has his life overturned when three hooded blackmailers appear with a video tape of Harry and his young mistress. He's been set up and they want $100000. To protect his wife's political ambitions Harry won't go to the police; instead he shines them on and then doesn't pay. They up their demands so he goes on the offensive tracking them down and trying to turn one against the other. Their sociopathic leader Alan responds with violence toward the mistress and menace toward Harry's wife. Will Harry let up and pay off Alan or can he find some other solution?Run Time: 110 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: R UPC: 027616077172 Manufacturer No: M107717 Amazon.com: Adapting Elmore Leonard's novels for the big screen has often proved to be a hit-or-miss proposition (Get Shorty and Jackie Brown are notable exceptions), but director John Frankenheimer is mostly on the mark with 52 Pick-Up. Leonard also co-wrote the screenplay, which stars Roy Scheider as Harry Mitchell, a businessman whose life is turned upside down when he's videotaped in flagrante delicto with his very young mistress (Kelly Preston); he's then approached by three bad guys (John Glover as vile ringleader Alan, Clarence Williams III as menacing gunman Bobby, and Robert Trebor as sweaty, nebbishy Leo), who demand big bucks from Harry in return for the tape. That's the plan, anyway. But Harry fights back. He confesses all to his long-suffering wife (Ann-Margret, fine in an underwritten part) and refuses to go the cops in order to protect her burgeoning political career; he's also unwilling to hand over the money, choosing instead to take on the villains, whose own mistrust of one another makes Harry's mission easier. All the elements one might expect are on display (including kidnapping, murder, and blackmail), coated with a patina of sleaze that features ample nudity (the bad guys also happen to be pornographers), profanity, and fairly graphic violence. Still, for all its arch tone, pithy dialogue, and a plot twist here and there, 52 Pick-Up lacks the full measure of subtlety, tension, and excitement that would make it really good, instead of merely serviceable. The DVD includes no bonus material. --Sam Graham Average Rating:
 Rating:  - "You're After Something Aren't You?" ~ The Consequences Of One Little MistakeIf you like brutal, urban drama dealing with such dubious subject matters as; infidelity, pornography, blackmail and murder you should love '52 Pick-Up' starring Roy Schneider, Ann-Margaret, Kelly Preston, Vanity and a few other familiar faces. Released in '86 this hard hitting, uncompromising depiction of the underbelly of society is definitely not wholesome family entertainment. Of course it wasn't designed for that target audience. '52 Pick-Up contains a well thought out storyline, ... Read More Rating:  - Crime comes to L.A.Exciting movie that keeps you guessing until the end. Characters are well developed. Plot is interesting and clear. Rating: - Ahead of it's timeAt the time this movie came out, Roy Scheider already looked an old man - especially seeing him now, starts me wondering what's his age now, anyway. Still, his acting performance is almost a classic one and Ann Margret is cast excellently as his wife that he betrayes. True, some scenes are a little out of date now. They show that movie making has grown since but that's not always an improvement if you ask me. The specific scene where they put Scheider under pressure with a little home movie still ... Read More Rating: - Leonard and Frankenheimer get down and dirty52 Pick-Up was one of the few rays of light in the dark days when every screen adaptation of an Elmore Leonard novel would go horribly wrong and when John Frankenheimer's name on the credits wasn't exactly a guarantee of quality any more, although it sank quickly due to a botched marketing campaign (the producers decided to play up the good reviews by touting it as `The best film this season from Cannon,' which is a bit like boasting about having the least contagious form of VD). A riff on his earlier Western ... Read More Rating: - interested in a jag52 pick up is a tightly woven film noir that builds the suspense right from the outset. Harry and Barbara Mitchell (Roy Scheider and Ann Margret) play an upscale professional couple in their mid fifties. Harry owns a steel manufacturing business while Barbara is an evironmental oversight board chairman with political connections. As the film begins Harry is sandbagged by three individuals who entrap him with a video showing him in an extramarital affair with a young woman named Cinny. (Kelly Preston) ... Read More |
