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- 2007
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 33 m
- 2007
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 33 m
Summary This street-smart mob comedy is the story of what happens when two mismatched people find a common calling. (IFC Films)
Directed By: John Dahl
Written By: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
- 2007
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 33 m
- 2007
- R
- IFC Films
- 1 h 33 m
You Kill Me
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8.0
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Summary This street-smart mob comedy is the story of what happens when two mismatched people find a common calling. (IFC Films)
Directed By: John Dahl
Written By: Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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80% Positive
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12% Mixed
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8% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
64
80% Positive
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
12% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
8% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Frank (Ben Kingsley) meets Laurel (Tea Leoni), a woman who has been around the block a time or 200, and she likes Frank's directness, while he likes her unflappability. This is one of the greatest screwball relationships in years.
You Kill Me kills you softly with its smiles.
Surely there aren't many emotionally fragile mobster stories left in the Hollywood arsenal. But at least Kill is a pretty good shot with the laughs.
I don't want to oversell You Kill Me. It is not going to leave you breathless with laughter. But I don't want to undersell it either. For an hour and a half it exerts its own preposterous reality, making you believe it -- and like it.
Its razor-sharp script by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely and the hilariously deadpan comic performances by Ben Kingsley and Tea Leoni make it a consistent pleasure.
Dahl has directed half a dozen sardonic noir movies, dating back to "Kill Me Again" in 1989, so he should have been the ideal choice for this material. But even he can't make chicken salad from a pile of beaks, bones and claws.
The past decade has been less kind to Dahl, and though his latest, called You Kill Me, has the outward appearance of a return to form, it may in fact be the worst thing he's ever done--an inert, tone-deaf mélange of "The Sopranos" and "Six Feet Under."
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 User Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 14 User Ratings
8.0
79% Positive
11 Ratings
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14% Mixed
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Production Company
Carol Baum Productions,
Code Entertainment,
Dillinger Productions,
Echo Lake Entertainment,
Green Tulip Productions,
Independent Film Group,
Lavender Pictures
Release Date Jun 22, 2007
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating R
Tagline A killer comedy by John Dahl
Website
http://www.youkillmethefilm.com/
Awards
Prism Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Satellite Awards
• 1 Nomination
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
• 1 Nomination
