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52 Pick-Up

His Wife... His Mistress... His Career... A Deadly Trap

Rating 6.1 / 10Release November 7, 1986Runtime 110 min

Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000. Fearing that the story will hurt his wife's political campaign if he goes to the police, Harry pretends that he will pay the men, but does not follow through.

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