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Nov 30, 2012 · Killing Them Softly: Directed by Andrew Dominik. With Brad Pitt, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, James Gandolfini. Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.
- Andrew Dominik
- 489
- 3 min
Killing Them Softly is based on the 1974 novel Cogan's Trade by George V. Higgins. Cogan's Trade, like Higgins' other novels, takes place in Boston; although filmed in the New Orleans area, characters in Killing Them Softly make several references to Boston area suburbs from the original novel. The film was written and directed by Andrew ...
- $37.9 million
- Andrew Dominik
- $15 million
Nov 30, 2012 · Killing Them Softly is a darkly comic, visceral thriller that doubles as a cautionary tale on capitalism, whose message is delivered with sledgehammer force. When rival crook Johnny Amato (Vincent ...
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- Andrew Dominik
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- Brad Pitt
Nov 28, 2012 · The plot of “Killing Them Softly” centers on a deadly Catch-22. A genial guy named Markie Trattman ( Ray Liotta) operates high-stakes poker games for the mob. One night the game is hit by two hooded stick-up men, who make off with a big pile of mob money. This in itself is suspicious, because it looks like an inside job: What outsider, even ...
Boston , the fall of 2008. While the banking crisis grips national news, two young slackers rob a high-stakes poker game. The local Mob attorney brings in Jackie to clean things up. He's a hit man who likes to kill his victims softly. There's a code at work: Jackie surmises that he has to kill Trattman, even though he's innocent; then Jackie ...
