Road Ends / Hit Me ( Safe House )

Road Ends / Hit Me (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Safe House
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
222 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1996 - 1997 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Rick King
Steven Shainberg

Written By:
Bill Mesce Jr.
Denis Johnson
Jim Thompson

Actors:
Dennis Hopper ..... Sheriff Ben Gilchrist
Peter Coyote ..... Gene Gere
Chris Sarandon ..... Esteban Maceda
Joanna Gleason ..... Armacost
Mariel Hemingway ..... Kat
Geoffrey Thorne ..... Roger Modine
Bert Remsen ..... Arliss
Patricia Van Ingen ..... Mama
Miguel Nájera ..... Orosco
Robert Covarrubias ..... Mexican Suit
Brad Blaisdell ..... Smoothie
Steve Larson ..... Surfer
Marte Boyle Slout ..... Matron
Christopher Boyer ..... Forensics
John Jabaley ..... The Rube
Elias Koteas ..... Sonny Rose
Laure Marsac ..... Monique Roux
Jay Leggett ..... Leroy Rose
Bruce Ramsay ..... Del Towbridge
Kevin J. O'Connor ..... Cougar
Philip Baker Hall ..... Lenny Ish
J.C. Quinn ..... Fred Bascomb
Haing S. Ngor ..... Billy Tungpet
William H. Macy ..... Policeman
Jack Conley ..... Mr. Ish's Bodyguard
Arthur Senzy ..... Peter Stillwell
Tom Lillard ..... Patron

Synopsis:

Road Ends:
Mike Max is a Hollywood producer whose stock in trade is the ultra-violent thriller. It is a genre that has made Mike rich and has kept his wife Paige in a luxurious lifestyle. Ray Bering is a surveillance expert working for the government whose is attempting to blanket LA with cameras to record street crime which he hopes will drastically cut police response time. Their lives cross when Ray's cameras record Mike's brutal abduction. Suddenly, many people are affected by Mike's disappearance including his wife, who was set to leave him, but now is in a position to inherit his millions. Cat, a stuntwoman who worked for Max, starts to re-evalute her profession while gangsta rap producer Six O One begins to remove the violent content in his music. As Ray studies the tape of Mike's violent abduction, repeatedly magnifying it and clarifying it, he discovers what really happened to Max and the role he played in making it happen.

Hit Me:
Sonny leads a dreary life as a bellhop in a hotel. He dreams of riches and gets involved with Del in a plan to steal money from safe deposits at the hotel. Neither Sonny nor Del realise that the hotel's corrupt top executive Lenny Ish is on to them.

Road Ends:
Maceda testified against drug trafficker Orosco. Now Orosco is out of prison and out to get Maceda.

Hit Me:
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.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 16 March, 2009.