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Hit Me (film)

Hit Me
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Directed by Steven Shainberg
Produced by Gregory Goodman
Steven Shainberg
Screenplay by Denis Johnson
Based on A Swell-Looking Babe
by Jim Thompson
Starring Elias Koteas
Laure Marsac
William H. Macy
Music by Peter Manning Robinson
Cinematography Mark J. Gordon
Edited by Donn Aron
Production
company
Slough Pond
Release date
  • September 9, 1996 (1996-09-09) (Toronto)
  • September 25, 1998 (1998-09-25) (US)
Running time
125 minutes
Country United States
Language English

Hit Me is a 1996 crime film directed by Steven Shainberg starring Elias Koteas, Laure Marsac, and William H. Macy. The film is based on the novel A Swell-Looking Babe by Jim Thompson.

Sonny lives with his intellectually disabled older brother and works as a bellhop in a hotel where Monique checks in. Del invites Sonny to take part in a heist but executive Lenny Ish is on to them.

This was Haing S. Ngor's last film.

The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 1996, followed by a release in US theaters on September 25, 1998.

The film received mixed reviews.


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