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52 Pick-Up: The Best 80s Movie You Never Saw?
Posted 3 months ago
If you like rough, violent, grimy crime movies, 1986's 52 Pick-Up is well worth checking out.
52 Pick-Up
- Theatrical - Wide 1986-11-07
- Cast Roy Scheider John Glover Robert Trebor Kelly Preston Doug McClure
- Directed by John Frankenheimer
- Written by Elmore Leonard John Steppling
Box Office Gross:
$5,186,646
Running Time:
110 minutes
Language:
English
Production Company:
The Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions
Genres:
JoBlo's Rating
Synopsis
Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that the... See more story will hurt his wife’s political campaign if he goes to the police, Harry pretends that he will pay the men, but does not follow through.
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