Pickings

When a short-tempered mobster and his gang of thugs try to shake down a neighborhood bar, they're soon confronted with the wrath of its owner - a mysterious southern mother with a dangerous past.

Cast

Elyse Price

as Jo Lee-Haywood

Katie Vincent

as Scarlet Lee-Haywood

Taso Mikroulis

as Marvin Lee-Haywood

Joel Bernard

as Boone Pickens

Lynne Jordan

as May Pickens

Michelle Holland

as Doris Pickens

Joe Trombino

as Jimmy Marcone

Reviews

Edward Gomez

Excellent movie,Usher Morgan's superb directorial debut, a very well told story about vengeance and redemption amazingly mixing elements of many genres, film-noir ,mafia and a thin splash of spaghetti western spliced into an awesome pastiche. The story develops at a small pace, nothing is rushed, a...

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