by Clarke Fountain
synopsis
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.
characteristics
- Bellhop
- Theft
- Hostelry
- Inn
- Heist
- Robber
- Thief
- Hotel
- Crime Gone Awry
- Nail-biters
- Security-guard
- Security-police
- Brother
- Money
- Mob-boss
