You Kill Me

Here's what I can piece together about the plot:

Ben Kingsley is a hitman and an alcoholic. While on a job to kill Dennis Farina, he gets drunk, falls asleep, and misses the hit. His boss (the always-dependable Philip Baker Hall) sends him to San Francisco to attend rehab. In AA he befriends a gay Luke Wilson (that's a description of the character, not my opinion of the lesser Wilson brother), who becomes his sponsor. Bill Pullman sets Kingsley up with a job at a funeral home, where he meets a grieving daughter (Tea Leoni) and begins a romantic relationship with her. Kingsley tells both Leoni and Wilson that he is a killer, and neither one seems to care. In fact, it appears that Leoni helps him out with training to be a better, sober killer. Then he gets the call that he has to go back home and finish the Farina job. His confidence is shaky, and he looks to his friends for support.

Sound like I've already watched the movie? The trailer looks good, and the fact that is seems to give the entire plot away in 2 minutes suggests to me that the movie will be more about the characters than the story. With a cast like this, I'm fine with that. The film is directed by John Dahl, who has a pretty good track record. Even his misfires have at least been ambitious. The tone of the trailer drifts dangerously close to making it seem like a "Grosse Pointe Blank" knockoff, but Kingsley has a much more assured presence onscreen than Cusack did. I'm curiously looking forward to this one.