Triggermen

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Triggermen
First Look International
Distributed byFranchise Pictures
Release dates
Running time
96 minutes
CountriesGermany
Canada
United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$12,000,000.00 (est)

Triggermen is a 2002

Chicago, the film was shot in Toronto.[7]

Plot

Pete Maynard (

con men down on their luck. They are holed up in a Chicago boarding room with their landlady harassing them for her long overdue rent. While attempting to scam someone he thinks is a businessman, Pete intercepts a briefcase full of cash intended for mobsters Terry Malloy (Donnie Wahlberg) and Tommy O'Brian (Michael Rapaport
) as a payoff for a planned hit, as well as a key to a swank hotel room.

In the hotel room, Pete and Andy meet up with Terry and Tommy as the latter await their money. They then have to convince a local mob boss, Franco D'Amico (Louis Di Bianco), that they are in fact the hitmen hired to kill competing mob boss Ben Cutler (Pete Postlethwaite). At the same time that Cutler is trying to track down the missing money, mobster Terry falls for Emma Cutler (Claire Forlani), unaware that her father is the man he was supposed to kill.

Cast

Critical reception

Raidió Teilifís Éireann wrote of the film, "Without a speck of originality, intelligence or humour, 'Triggermen' is all a bit aimless."[11]

Conversely,

Time Out Film Guide offered that the director's "decently crafted script" was a "watchable, bland comedy" "only slightly more hit than miss."[6] They offered that Neil Morrissey's performance "just about carries the film" and that it was Amanda Plummer's "intense" performance that acted as the film's "saving grace".[6]

Release

The film had its

US in 2004, and television airings in Sweden in 2007 and as Balfék balhé in Hungary in 2008.[14] In Brazil it aired as Correndo Atrás do Amor.[15]

References

  1. ^ staff. "Triggermen". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on July 13, 2012. Retrieved April 9, 2012.
  2. ^ a b staff (2003). Tribune: Volume 67. Tribune Publications. p. 24.
  3. ^ a b c Scheib, Ronnie (November 18, 2002). "review: Triggermen". Variety. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
  4. ^ staff (2004). Film review, Issues 639–642. Orpheus Pub.
  5. ^ Neil Smith (November 27, 2003). "Triggermen (2003)". BBC. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  6. ^
    Time Out Film Guide
    . Retrieved March 21, 2012.
  7. ^ a b Robey, Tim (December 29, 2003). "Trying too hard to believe". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
  8. ^ a b staff. "review: Triggermen". Film4. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
  9. ^ a b c staff (January 4, 2004). "The MAG Movies: Dreary Farce Falls Flat; Triggermen". Sunday Mercury. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
  10. ^ a b Murphy, Garreth. "film review: Triggermen". entertainment.ie. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
  11. Raidió Teilifís Éireann
    . Retrieved March 21, 2012.
  12. ^ Scheck, Frank (December 3, 2002). "Triggermen". The Hollywood Reporter.
  13. ^ staff. "Cine apasa pe tragaci" (in Romanian). hmultiplex.ro/. Retrieved April 8, 2012.
  14. ^ staff, Hungarian. "Balfék balhé". filmkatalogus.hu. Retrieved April 9, 2012.
  15. Globo. Archived from the original
    on July 17, 2012. Retrieved April 9, 2012.

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