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You Kill Me

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An alcoholic mob hit man, Frank Falenczyk (Ben Kingsley), is forced into rehab by his boss (Philip Baker Hall). To clean up he gets a sponsor (Luke Wilson) who helps him enroll in a 12 step program. Frank eventually takes a job in a mortuary and begins a new life, falling in love with his attractive co-worker Laurel (Téa Leoni). Frank's idyllic new life is threatened when old associates with bad attitudes and worse intentions start looking for him.

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Featuring wonderful performances from Ben Kingsley and Tea Leoni, You Kill Me is a charming, funny take on the familiar inner-lives-of-hit-men premise.

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Anthony Quinn Independent (UK) Domesticating the mobster within society has become almost a commonplace, thanks to The Sopranos, but Kingsley's tight-lipped gruffness gives a lift to the mordant ironies of the script. Rated: 3/5 Dec 7, 2007 Full Review Nigel Andrews Financial Times Ben Kingsley brings a batty, basilisk wit to You Kill Me, a black comedy about a dipsomaniacal hitman. Dec 7, 2007 Full Review Ross Bennett Empire Magazine Despite some good performances, You Kill Me misses the target. Rated: 2/5 Dec 7, 2007 Full Review Debbie Lynn Elias Behind The Lens Devilishly delicious and drop dead funny. Nov 3, 2019 Full Review Kelly Vance East Bay Express Where Dahl succeeds is in transforming two essentially tired characters into fully fleshed-out human beings who fall in love. Apr 28, 2011 Full Review Matthew Turner ViewLondon Rated: 2/5 Oct 18, 2008 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Enjoyable movie about an alcoholic hitman (Ben Kingsley) that is trying to get sober. It is well paced and a pretty good film. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review steve d The actors are having a blast and the script is just off the wall enough to work. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member love seeing grownups falling in love... Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member For a relatively low budget film, made in Winnipeg, it worked well. The acting comes out on the right tone. The events seems believable. Téa and Ben have a romance that appears quite possible. The whole was hardly predictable, peaking the interest throughout. I liked the pace of the film, not too fast, not too slow, giving us the time to ponder where the thing is going and surprising us most of the times. The dvd extra explained how they made it in Winnipeg in may and were able to digitally recreate winter and the US locations incredibly well. I was stunned when the credits mentioned Winnipeg and thought they had shot only the winter scenes there. Well, it was not event winter in Canada in may. Very good effort, worthy of our appreciation. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Weak movie, due to bad script and poor casting choices. Tea Leonie is just a bit too beautiful and tall to fit with the desperate, killer-drunk Ben Kingsley. The Humor is all too much in the been-there-done-that category: it's a bit like Sopranos meet AA-Meetings, a Variation of Tony talking to his shrink. Just not funny, poor taste, silly, strange. How is it funny if a killer walks backwards the wrong way? How is it funny that he works with dead People? How is it funny that not one member of his gangster family couldn't even hold a gun upright? It just doesn't make any sense. I don't agree with the critics at all: 2 stars, on a good day. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member This flick about Killed me! Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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John Dahl

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Ben Kingsley

Frank

Téa Leoni

Laurel

Luke Wilson

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Dennis Farina

Edward O'Leary

Philip Baker Hall

Roman

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Synopsis An alcoholic mob hit man, Frank Falenczyk (Ben Kingsley), is forced into rehab by his boss (Philip Baker Hall). To clean up he gets a sponsor (Luke Wilson) who helps him enroll in a 12 step program. Frank eventually takes a job in a mortuary and begins a new life, falling in love with his attractive co-worker Laurel (Téa Leoni). Frank's idyllic new life is threatened when old associates with bad attitudes and worse intentions start looking for him.
Director
John Dahl
Producer
Carol Baum, Al Corley, Mike Marcus, Eugene Musso, Bart Rosenblatt, Howard Rosenman
Screenwriter
Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
Distributor
IFC Films
Production Co
Echo Lake Productions, Code Entertainment
Rating
R (Some Violence|Language)
Genre
Comedy, Romance
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 22, 2007, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 1, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$2.4M
Runtime
1h 32m
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