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Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Amiable Alan Long plays Chuck, a carefree young man who was hired to drive a vehicle - a bus converted into a mobile home - from Miami to Tallahassee. Along the way, he offers a ride to sexy hippie chicks Carol (Jill Senter) and Maureen (Gini Eastwood). Carol is more of a free spirit; Maureen is a little uptight, and she has misgivings about the whole deal. But she goes along, and the three of them have memorably bizarre experiences after taking a detour and getting stuck in the Florida Everglades.Directed by Bernard Hirschenson, who served as his own cinematographer, and written by John Winter (who plays the sleazy priest), this is truly one of those trash movies that you don't so much watch as experience. Not exactly harmless, it does take the viewer on a fairly grim journey, and offers a plethora of dreamlike images. Not that it's a "drug film"; far from it, as the characters never partake in that sort of recreational activity. It also exhibits a very spiritual quality as well as a surreal one. It has the kind of interesting elements that will have trash lovers fascinated as they attempt to interpret them - like that clown with the balloons, for example. His face is meant to be a shock when Maureen removes his mask, yet we never see what she sees.As the not-so-straightforward story plays out, we get some insight into these characters, showing us earlier key moments in their lives. As we get to know them a bit better, they become more engaging.Hirschenson and his crew definitely have an arty sensibility going for them. There is actually a painterly aspect to the images that they capture on film. The nudity and sex are likewise handled in this manner.Along with a handful of solid performances, and haunting music by Michael Rod and Patrick Adams, it is this aspect to "Pick-Up" that makes it more than run-of-the-mill trash, and makes it pretty hard to forget.Eight out of 10.

It is such a counterculture film about being a nonconformist (turn on, tune out and drop out) that I suspect it wasn't a mistake that the weird clown that wanders through the film looks like Richard Nixon. And behind the face of that evil clown is the devil (with a red face.) Nixon was certain seen as Satan by hippies at the time.I'd love to know what the producer though when they first viewed this film. They wanted a silly T&A film. Instead they got a surreal art film…with T&A. It really has no story, it is all mood but in an era of formula picture this is a ride worth taking.Jill Senter is wonderful as a woman who at first seems playfully uninhibited but in fact is a very tragic figure.

Pick-up (1975) 1/2 (out of 4) Crown International flick was part of BCI's Drive-In Collection set but I'm really not sure what the hell this film was trying to do. Two hippie chicks (Jil Senter, Gini Eastwood) hitch a ride with a hippie guy (Alan Long) but soon they both regret it. As I said, I have no idea what this movie was trying to do but it's without question one of the dumbest films I've ever seen. I love drive-in trash but this thing was simply beyond bad and the only reason I don't give this thing a BOMB rating is because it's so strange that you have to watch it until the end just to see how much stranger it will get. The two female leads only appeared in one movie and this is it. I wouldn't say their performances were awful but they are pretty bad but a lot of this is due to the really bad screenplay, which has everything from a priest molesting one of the girls to one having some sort of sexual fascination with God (or perhaps it was meant to be Jesus). There is quite a bit of nudity, which is good because otherwise this film would be unwatchable. I'm going to guess this film was trying to be some sort of Easy Rider rip off but it doesn't have a single moment going for it.

Pick-up is a low budget 70s sexploitation film, and what is one to expect from a 70s sexploitation film but a mildly entertaining plot and a lot of sex. Well, though the latter was featured quite prominently, it is very hard to nit pick the story, as there is none to be seen. This is no more than a random trip in a bus with a guy and two girls, and the crazy happenings that go on.Two hippie chicks, Carol (Jill Senter) and Maureen (Gini Eastwood), are meditating in a field, meet a crazy hippie guy, Chuck (Alan Long), who has this nifty bus. They go on what seems to be a spiritual adventure involving seeing things that aren't there, and running around naked through a field. The climax of the film is so mind blowingly stupid, you wouldn't believe someone actually penned this awful "story"(?).The main problem with the movie is it makes no sense, and has no story. At least if it had a nonsensical story that would be something, but this movie just doesn't try to tell us anything. It's just about some young people and their sexy naked adventures. At times, this movie can be extremely slow too, and it gets boring. It seems the only reason anyone would enjoy this film, is for it's large quantities of nudity and sexuality, but even that can't keep people interested through the many lulls.This is a fun flick if you like bad '70s cinema, but otherwise avoid this strange and silly movie.My rating: * out of ****. 75 mins. R for nudity/sexuality, and language.