Hit Me

Hit Me (1996)

Genres - Drama, Mystery, Thriller  |   Sub-Genres - Crime Thriller, Post-Noir (Modern Noir)  |   Release Date - Oct 9, 1998 (USA)  |   Run Time - 125 min.  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Clarke Fountain

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.

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bellhop, hotel, robbery, brother, gambling, mob-boss, money, security-guard, woman, mental-retardation, suicide-attempt