Movies about hit men who grow on you are as easy to find these days as an unregistered gun. In YOU KILL ME, Frank (Ben Kingsley) is a grumpy, Buffalo-based contract killer with a taste for gin as well as whacking for dollars. Tapped to make a hit that will ensure the power of Mob his boss-uncle (Philip Baker Hall, the hyper library cop in "Seinfeld"), he winds up falling asleep on the job. Displeased, to say the least, his boss sends Frank to San Francisco with orders to join AA and get sober, or risk getting fired permanently. Frank goes, but not gracefully. At first it's rough going, but over the course of his "vacation" he finds a sponsor who becomes a friend (Luke Wilson), stops drinking (most of the time), excels in a respectable job (sort of – preparing corpses in a funeral home), and falls in love with another AA-er (Lea Teoni) who learns to overlook his peccadilloes and even helps him fix the mess he created back in Buffalo – none of it without complications, of course.
YOU KILL ME (2007)
Movies about hit men who grow on you are as easy to find these days as an unregistered gun. In YOU KILL ME, Frank (Ben Kingsley) is a grumpy, Buffalo-based contract killer with a taste for gin as well as whacking for dollars. Tapped to make a hit that will ensure the power of Mob his boss-uncle (Philip Baker Hall, the hyper library cop in "Seinfeld"), he winds up falling asleep on the job. Displeased, to say the least, his boss sends Frank to San Francisco with orders to join AA and get sober, or risk getting fired permanently. Frank goes, but not gracefully. At first it's rough going, but over the course of his "vacation" he finds a sponsor who becomes a friend (Luke Wilson), stops drinking (most of the time), excels in a respectable job (sort of – preparing corpses in a funeral home), and falls in love with another AA-er (Lea Teoni) who learns to overlook his peccadilloes and even helps him fix the mess he created back in Buffalo – none of it without complications, of course.
