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Genres:
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Comedy /
Crime /
Romance /
Thriller
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Director:
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John Dahl
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Actors:
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Scott Heindl,
Aaron Hughes,
Alison Sealy-Smith,
Al Corley,
Devin McCracken,
Ben Kingsley,
Téa Leoni,
Luke Wilson,
Dennis Farina,
Philip Baker Hall,
Bill Pullman,
Marcus Thomas,
Aron Tager,
Jayne Eastwood,
Erik Fjeldsted
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Duration:
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93 min.
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Rating:
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(6.7/10)119
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Plot Summary:
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Frank Falenczyk (Ben Kingsley) loves his robbery. He just happens to be the hit-man conducive to his Polish around stock in Buffalo, N.Y. But, Frank's got a drinking problem and when he messes up a fault-finding assignment that puts the genus business in peril, his uncle sends him to San Francisco to wash up b purge up his act. Frank is not a touchy-feely kind of cat. But, he starts going to AA meetings, gets a sponsor and a livelihood at a mortuary where he falls for the acerbic-tongued Laurel (T??a Leoni), a abigail who is dangerously devoid of boundaries. Interval, things... aren't customary well in Buffalo where an pretender Irish gang is threatening the lineage business. When violence erupts, Frank is forced to return haunt and with an inappropriate abet from Laurel, faces antiquated rivals on fresh terms.
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Totally irrelevant
Weak. Pointless. Not funny. Not thriling. Not moving. An exercise in tedium. Who cares?
You Kill Me
Scott BowlesHollywood loves its mobsters with emotional issues. So You Kill Me isn't going to score many points for originality. But unlike, say, The Sopranos, Analyze This or The Matador, this film's hit man isn't fretting the job. He just wants to get sober so he can do it more effectively. That premise, coupled with Ben Kingsley's remarkably understated performance, is enough to keep Kill on target. Kingsley plays Frank, a hit man for an extended Polish family in Buffalo, where the snowplow business is a lot more cutthroat than you'd think. Frank is a killer who either has a gun or a bottle in his hand. Lately, though, he's been more alcoholic than assassin. And when he sleeps through a planned hit of his boss's rival (Dennis Farina), he's sen...
You Kill Me
Ben Kingsley and T??a Leoni make an unlikely couple in this blackly comic hitman-based romance from the director of The Last Seduction and Red Rock West
Alcoholism, the death of a parent and warfare between rival crime syndicates - an irresistible cocktail of ingredients if you're aiming to make a rib-tickling comedy. Astonishingly this works wonderfully in John Dahl's triumphant return to the world of off-kilter thrillers, in which he made his name in the 1990s.
Ben Kingsley is Frank; a sloppy hitman based in freezing Buffalo. He is only kept on as he's quite literally family to the local Mob boss Uncle Roman (Baker Hall). With his goatee beard, piercing eyes and knitted hat, Kingsley resembles the villain in a festive panto based on the first Dexys Midnight Runner...
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