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Year of U.S. Release: 2007
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Tea Leoni, Luke Wilson.
Director: John Dahl Screenwriter(s): Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely Producer(s): Carol Baum, Al Corley, Bart Rosenblatt, Eugene Musso, Mike Marcus Distributor: IFC Films
Prod. Company: Code Entertainment, Echo Lake Productions, Carol Baum Productions
Genre(s): Comedy U.S. Release Date: June 22, 2007 (Limited)
U.S. DVD Release Date: October 09, 2007
U.S. Box Office Total:
Rated for language and some violence.
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A hitman from Buffalo is sent to the West Coast to dry out. He attends AA meetings, gets a sponsor and lands a job in a mortuary, where he meets a woman who is a relative of one his hits.
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Frank Falenczyk (Ben Kingsley) loves his job. He just happens to be the hit-man for his Polish mob family in Buffalo, New York. But Frank’s got a drinking problem and when he messes up a critical assignment that puts the family business in peril, his uncle (Philip Baker Hall) sends him to San Francisco to clean up his act. Played with gruff charm by Kingsley, Frank is not a touchy-feely kind of guy. But he starts going to AA meetings, gets a sponsor (played by Luke Wilson) and a job at a mortuary where he falls for the tart-tongued Laurel (Téa Leoni), a woman who is dangerously devoid of boundaries. Meanwhile, things aren’t going well in Buffalo where an upstart Irish gang is threatening the family business. When violence erupts, Frank is forced to return home and with an unlikely assist from Laurel, faces old rivals on new terms.
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