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This picks up about a year after the events in "Basic Instinct".
Skip McCoy is a three time loser pick pocket, unable to curb his instincts back on the street, he picks the purse of Candy on a subway train.
Once the bet is on, though, the movie picks up the pace as it's a race against time to see if a certain number of worms can be eaten by 7 pm.
The second half of the movie picks up steam once we start to investigate the forgotten gadgets of the "Krell."
I never saw the sequel (Distant Thunder), but I believe it picks up where this movie ends.
With maximum dignity, the Colonel rejects Nogales' offer, picks up his fighting rooster and walks away as nobly as his old legs can carry him.
"Tarzan and His Mate", the second of MGM's Tarzan pictures, picks up a year after the events of "Tarzan the Ape Man".
I really hope that she picks Harvey!
Bragana, a fat-bellied gas station tenant, who has been getting on in years, picks her up from the street and offers her bed and home together with his clumsy affection.
This is where the pace of the film picks up and the ending is well done.
Joe picks up his humdrum life living in Texas and moves it to New York City with the dream of lots of women, and even more money.
The story kind of sags, though, about 2/3 of the way (where it sort of treads on familiar, standard fare, where nothing really interesting happens), but near the end, it picks up a bit again.
The cat quickly walks over to the fish, gently picks him up with his paws, and returns him to his bowl.
The story wasn't entirely fresh (felt like a remnant of "Running Man" with the whole television show idea), but the attitude towards Christianity and Judaism about how the public picks their Messiah certainly sounded true enough.
I came home late one night and turned on the TV, to see Siskel and Ebert summarizing their picks of the week.
But when he slides he picks up speed thus defying physics (mainly friction); yet what lies behind the door is supreme.
The saddest part of the documentary is when Jonny picks out his coffin.
Part Two picks up... not where the last film left off.
Not only is it a beautiful film, it is a beautifully acted, written and directed film and it is among my picks for the top five or so American films of the 1990s.
Starts off slow but picks up steam once you have learned about the main characters and the real action can begin.
In fact, once the large Yeti picks up the hottie and has her against his chest - she accidentally touches the Yeti's nipple and yes, the film takes the time to show his large grey nipple GET HARD!!!! Yikes of all YIKES!
He picks up a lady in a big hat in a bar one night, and the two agree to a 'no strings attached' night of fun.
So the town picks on this one kid calling him scarecrow, even his mom doesn't care about him.
The movie picks up once Rani has her miscarriage where you feel that you are watching something other than a typical movie.
Eddie Izzard is a genius, he picks in Brits, Americans and everyone in between.
When he picks up a clearly petrified girl who's running from the cult to avoid being sacrificed, Michael is drawn even deeper into an occult conspiracy.
Kate then visits a museum & picks up a stranger, they go back to his apartment for casual sex, when done Kate is set to leave but is attacked & killed in the buildings elevator by a razor blade wielding blonde woman.
After reporting to duty, she wakes up (Having Been Drugged) in a vast Manderley-like pile on the Cornish coast, supposedly as the barmy-in-the-crumpet wife of George Macready, who displays an alarming interest in knives and ice picks.
The movie starts out a bit slow but the pace picks up frantically by the second half.
As others have said, the action begins when Anthony Edwards picks up a ringing pay phone and gets a frantic message from someone in an ICBM silo who has apparently dialed the wrong number saying the missiles are on their way.
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