YOU KILL ME

Year: 2007
USA: IFC Films
UK: Revolver Entertainment
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Tea Leoni, Luke Wilson, Dennis Farina, Philip Baker Hall, Bill Pullman, Marcus Thomas, Jayne Eastwood, Scott Heindl, Aaron Hughes, Lorraine James, Micheline Marchildon, Devin McCracken, Tracy McMahon, Katie Messina, Joanne Rodriguez, Will Woytowich, Jon Ted Wynne, Warren Louis Wiltshire, Cory Cassidy, Darren Wall
Director: John Dahl
Country: USA
USA & UK: 92 mins
USA Rated: R for language and some violence
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language
USA Release Date: 22 June 2007 (Limited Release)
UK Release Date: 7 December 2007 (Limited Release)

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Synopsis

"Hi, my name is Frank,
I'm an alcoholic,
I kill people for a living.
This is anonymous, right?"

Frank Falenczyk (Ben Kingsley) is the hit man for a Polish mob family who live in Buffalo, New York. An alcoholic, his drinking is his undoing when a crucial assignment backfires on him through his own shortcomings.

His uncle Roman Krzeminski (Philip Baker Hall) moves him south to San Francisco to dry out and he starts attending AA meetings. There he meets Tom (Luke Wilson), who becomes his sponsor and also finds a job at a mortuary where he falls for a tart-tongued co-worker, Laurel Pearson (Tea Leoni).

In his absence an Irish gang is moving in on the family business and as it erupts into violence Frank is summoned back to Buffalo with the unlikely assistance of Laurel, who seems dangerously devoid of boundaries.