Plot & Details
Hit Me is a film adaptation of Jim Thompson's crime novel, A Swell-Looking Babe. Sonny (Elias Koteas) lives with his retarded older brother, Leroy (Jay Leggett), and works very hard as a bellhop at a second-rate hotel. This changes when Monique (Laure Marsac) a beautiful, suicidal nut-case checks in. Sonny delivers her room service order and finds her bleeding from the wrists. She and Del (Bruce Ramsay), a male prostitute, draw Sonny into a robbery scheme which quickly begins to unravel.
- MPAA Rating: R
- Genre(s): Crime and Mystery,Thriller
- Run Time: 125min.
- Theatrical Release Date: 01/13/1997
- DVD Release Date: 04/08/2003
- Distributor(s): Fox
- Director(s): Steven Shainberg
- Starring: Elias Koteas , Laure Marsac , Jay Leggett
- Themes: Femmes Fatales,Dangerous Friends,Crime Gone Awry
- Tone: Gloomy,Moody,Sexy,Tense
- Keywords: bellhop,brother,gambling,hotel,mental-retardation,mob-boss,money,robbery,security-guard,suicide-attempt,woman
- Country of Origin: USA (10-09-1998)
- Language: English
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