The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford director Andrew Dominik is back, once again with Brad Pitt in the leading role. In Killing Them Softly, an adaptation Cogan’s Trade by George V. Higgins, Pitt stars as a mob enforcer charged with tracking down a pair of small-time crooks (Scoot McNairy and Ben Mendelsohn) who’ve robbed a mob card game.
The film premiered at Cannes earlier this year, where it was nominated for the Palme d’Or and scored some positive reviews.
Ray Liotta, Richard Jenkins, Sam Shepard and James Gandolfini co-star in the October 19th release.