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Heartbroken after discovering his wife is cheating on him, a suicidal man is mistaken for a low-rent hitman by a stranger. Writer/director Shane Atkinson's comedy crime caper, starring Steve Zahn and John Magaro

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Calum Baker

Wacky and doleful in equal measure, this blackly comic crime yarn follows the complications that arise when a suicidal man is mistaken for an assassin. John Magaro (Past Lives) is on fine form as small-town sad sack Ray, who discovers his wife (Megan Stevenson) is cheating on him and decides to end it all. Sitting in his car, gun in hand, he is approached and paid to undertake a hit - but the client got the wrong car. Writer/director Shane Atkinson does an impressively lucid job with the ensuing entanglement of mix-ups, MacGuffins and double crosses, as Ray and his enthusiastic sidekick (Steve Zahn) work ineptly to resolve the situation while the real hitman (Dylan Baker), looking for his money, closes in on them. Clearly influenced by the Coen brothers, Atkinson's screenplay is never quite so original, but he and Magaro work hard to find some grounding pathos in this increasingly violent caper. A uniformly excellent cast keeps the pace going, right to the inevitably bloody climax.

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rolenameRayJohn MagaroSkipSteve ZahnStacy-LynnMegan StevensonJuniorMatthew Del NegroHarryDylan Baker

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rolenameDirectorShane Atkinson

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Released on

2024-04-12

Languages

English

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Colour

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