You Kill Me

R

Released Jun 22, 2007

1 hr. 32 min.

Comedy

Romance

List

79%

114 Reviews

Tomatometer

59%

25,000+ Ratings

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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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Critics Consensus

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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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

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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

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Audience Member

love seeing grownups falling in love...

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/25/23

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laurie s

All the players did a good job with a fine script. Even Téa N Biscuits was good.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Serge L

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

06/14/15

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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

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John Dahl

Director

Ben Kingsley

Frank

Téa Leoni

Laurel

Luke Wilson

Tom

Dennis Farina

Edward O'Leary

Philip Baker Hall

Roman

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Hank Sartin

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Rated: 4/5

Nov 18, 2011

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Roger Moore

Orlando Sentinel

Rated: 4/5

May 13, 2009

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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

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Debbie Lynn Elias

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Devilishly delicious and drop dead funny.

Nov 3, 2019

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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

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Matthew Turner

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Rated: 2/5

Oct 18, 2008

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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
Executive Producer: Jonathan Dana
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

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