I Hired a Contract Killer

I Hired a Contract Killer is a film directed, produced and written by the Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki in 1990. It is a Finnish-British-German-Swedish co-production and stars the renowned French actor Jean-Pierre Léaud. The film also features cameo appearances by Joe Strummer as a guitar player^[3] and by Kaurismäki as a sunglasses salesman.

Plot[]

Henri Boulanger (Léaud), a French man living in London, is laid-off from his job after fifteen years of service. He tries to commit suicide but because he continuously fails, decides to hire a hitman (Kenneth Colley) to finish the job. After making the contract he meets Margaret (Margi Clarke) and finds new meaning to life, however, he is unable to call off the hitman.

See also[]

• Tribulations of a Chinaman in China (novel by Jules Verne, 1879)
• Flirting with Fate (1916)
• The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931)
• The Whistler (1944)
• You Only Live Once (1952)
• Five Days (1954)
• Up to His Ears (1965)
• Tulips (1981)
• Bulworth (1998)
• Shut Up and Shoot Me (2005)

References[]

External links[]

• I Hired a Contract Killer at IMDb
• I Hired a Contract Killer at AllMovie
• I Hired a Contract Killer at the British Board of Film Classification
• I Hired a Contract Killer at the British Film Institute
• I Hired a Contract Killer at Elonet (in Finnish)
• I Hired a Contract Killer at Rotten Tomatoes
• I Hired a Contract Killer at the Swedish Film Institute Database

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