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Actors: Roy Scheider, John Glover, Kelly Preston, Clarence Williams III
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about 52 Pick-Up |
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Roy Scheider stars as a successful (and married) businessman -if only in appearance- whose mistress (played by a young Kelly Preston) belongs to the porn industry. She also, most unfortunately for everyone involved, sort of "belongs" to a slimey individual, officially a photographer but prone to indulge in all sorts of illegal activities - the villain, masterfully played by John Glover.
When the mastermind villain gets word that "his girl" is fooling around with a married and presumably rich guy, he immediately plans to blackmail the man - get his cut of the deal, so to speak... he cold-bloodily murders the mistress and has his blackmailed prey sit in the bloody chair where he did her in to show him the deed - which he filmed!
Convinced he is dealing with hardened criminals, Scheider convinces the villain he can only gather so much cash - 52 thousand, not a penny more, to buy his silence so his wife (played by a still sultry Ann-Margret) will never know of any of this. Before the "52 pick-up" can occur though, the villain will arrange for some home invasion (performed by his ultra-violent partner in crime, played by Clarence Williams III). Scheider's character will begin to turn them against each other then - but his wife will get kidnapped and raped before the violent resolution of this sordid tale.
--Luminous Luciano, Resident Scholar
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Alan Raimy (Glover) is perhaps the slimiest, most disgusting movie villain ever. With his porn shop partners Bobby Shy (Williams) and Leo (Robert Trebor), they videotape their gruesome murder of Cini (Preston), the stripper with whom successful engineer/inventor Harry Mitchell (Scheider) has been cheating.
In a chilling scene, Raimy “narrates” the murder video with Harry forced to watch from the very chair where Cini died. As part of Raimy's overall nastiness, he derisively calls Harry “sport” during all this.
Harry finesses Raimy's name from a prostitute (Vanity) who asks, “if you take an umbrella, what kind of day is it?” For her betrayal, Bobby nearly suffocates her with a teddy bear. Confronting Raimy and insisting he review his business ledgers, Harry convincingly offers $52,000 as all he can liquidate. While half a loaf will do, Harry methodically plants doubts among the confounded killers who begin to turn on each other.
The creepy Raimy even rapes Harry's wife (Ann-Margaret) but at least comforts her as she pukes, “that can happen; don't let it spoil your high.” With the “52 pickup” arranged, Harry has one final surprise for Raimy which demonstrates his advanced engineering skills.
--Angry Jim Magin, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of 52 Pick-Up |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- vigilante hunting down criminal(s)
Kind of story:
- rape (yech!)
Blackmail & Seduction
Yes
Criminal enemy is...
- known killer
If this is a criminal POV story...
- killing innocent people
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- engineer
Age:
- 40's-50's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- red
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
- (woman) long wavy
Body type
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
- average (woman)
Unclothed?
- very tight clothes
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- killer
- mastermind
Eccentric:
Yes
- wild
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
- 80%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- skinny (man)
- muscular (man)
unclothed?
- chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
City?
Yes
City:
- Los Angeles
- Dirty, grimy (like New York)
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 1 ()
Kind of violence:
- mission to protect something
- mental battles
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- asphyxiation
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
- A lot of foul language
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Techno/disco
Is this movie based on a
- book
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