Callum Crane, a lawyer and would-be federal judge, jeopardizes his chances at a judgeship by forcing himself on his secretary. He then worsens the situation by trying to have the woman murdered. Further complicating matters, he assigns the task to a young man who, unbeknownst to Crane, is actually his son, Nathan. Nathan refuses to do the deed, but not before informing several people, one of whom tries to take on the job.
Acting
Pullman's sweaty, twitchy descent into pure sleaze.
Direction
Waller's plastic neo-noir aesthetic, straight from 1995.
Writing
The spectacularly contrived father-son hitman coincidence.
Director
Anthony Waller
Bill Pullman
Callum Crane
Devon Sawa
Nathan Corrigan
Gabrielle Anwar
Sophie Lennon
Angela Featherstone
Tanya Duncan
Joanne Whalley
Natalie Crane
Darcy Belsher
Dennis
Jaimz Woolvett
Leo
Ken Tremblett
Brent Frazer
Gillian Barber
Maddy Corrigan
Duncan Fraser
Martin Corrigan
Bruce Harwood
Miles
Hiro Kanagawa
Police Detective
Garry Chalk
Police Chief
Peter Kent
Benny (as Peter H. Kent)
Kurt Evans
Conor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Anthony Waller also directed the cult horror film Mute Witness (1995), another thriller about accidental witnesses to violence.
Devon Sawa was coming off Final Destination and Idle Hands, making his casting as a conflicted hitman-to-be a deliberate teen-star pivot that mostly flopped.
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