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Comedy
During a high-profile Mafia testimony case in Riverside County, a hired killer checks into a hotel room near the courthouse, while his depressed neighbor contemplates suicide over marital problems.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy tightly staged character farce where grim circumstances gradually give way to odd-couple warmth.
- Tone
- darkly comic, playful, bittersweet
- Payoff
- amusement, comfort
- Pacing
- brisk
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- loneliness, marital crisis, professional violence, unlikely companionship
- Setting
- contemporary, courthouse-adjacent hotel