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I Hired a Contract Killer
| Rating: | No Rating |
| Genre: | Drama, Comedy |
| Release Date: | January 1, 2001 |
| Running time: | 79 minutes |
| Cast: | Jean-Pierre Léaud, Margi Clarke, Kenneth Colley, T.R. Bowen, Imogen Claire |
| Director: | Aki Kaurismäki |
| Writer: | Aki Kaurismäki |
Description: In this Finnish comedy, which features all-English dialogue and nary a Scandanavian in it, Henri Boulanger (Jean-Pierre Leaud), is a colorless English civil servant, who was given a speedy retirement when his agency was privatized, complete with a gold watch. His life is so barren that removing even the empty activities of his job makes it not worth living, so he attempts suicide by sticking his head in a gas oven - just as a gas service strike gets underway. Frustrated, he takes his savings from the bank and heads off to hire a contract killer to take his life from him. Then he really begins to enjoy life - so much so, that now he wants to avoid his imminent demise.~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
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