Director John Dahl keeps a firm hand on Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely's razor-sharp hit-man-in-rehab comedy, which mines the same dark vein as GROSS POINTE BLANK (1997) and MATADOR (2005), and the payoff is both slily funny and startlingly fresh.
Frank Falenczyk (Ben Kingsley) comes from a close-knit Polish family in Buffalo, so naturally he went into the family business with his Uncle Roman (Philip Baker Hall). That's "Family" with a capital "F" — the snow-plow business is just the legitimate end of the low-level racketeering that keeps them in cold-weather gear and dingy little frame houses. Frank is very good at two things: killing people and dr...
Released:
2007
Rated:
R
Length:
92 mins