on the West Coast, there is an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman. It is a different mission with the woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return to Buffalo. After this return, they will settle some old scores for a long time.
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.
A sweet black comedy about a professional killer from Buffalo whose gangster uncle makes him join Alcoholics Anonymous in San Francisco, falls in love with a down to earth saleswoman and cleans up his act so he can be a neater killer.
