Country: USA
Year: 1994
Duration: 95'
Mick is a nihilistic New York hitman, who is entertained by an expensive call-girl. The prostitute has been provided as a gratuity from his boss for completing his latest kill. His session with the girl is interrupted by the entrance of his friend and assistant Archie, just returned from exile in Florida, after bungling the job Mick just had to finish. As Mick gets rid of the girl, his employer George turns up. After raging at the cowering Archie, George announces to Mick that he needs the use of his services this very night to kill a certain woman, who inexplicably is willing to be murdered. Mick falls in love with the girl, driven from a madness glimpse to seek relief in death. Mick discovers that he is so changed by this brief experience of love and desires to save her. So he struggles with Archie, desperate and looking for a way to prove his manhood, who tries to choice "job" out of Mick's hands.
Biography
film director
Mark Malone
Mark Malone makes his motion picture directorial debut with Killer. For the last several years, Malone has worked as a New York based screenwriter, playwright and stage director. For the screen, in 1986 he wrote Dead of Winter, which was produced by MGM, and in 1988 he wrote Signs of Life, which won the Critics Prize at the Deauville Film Festival. He is currently working with Ridley Scott on a screenplay entitled WASPS.
FILMOGRAFIA
Killer (1994).
Declaration
film director
"After several years working as a screenwriter I became interested in nihilism. I read a news article about organized crime in New York that said that many mobsters have stopped hiring psychopaths to do their killings for them. It seems that they have found them too unmanageable and unpleasant. Some of the men who arrange mob killings now seek out nihilists instead. For some reason this struck me as terribly, though darkly, funny." (Mark Malone).
Cast
& Credits
Director and plot: Mark Malone.
Screenplay: Gordon Melbourne.
Director of photography: Tobias SchliessIer.
Art director: Lynne Stopkewich.
Editor: Robin Russell.
Music: Graeme Coleman.
Cast and characters: Anthony LaPaglia (Mick), Mimi Rogers (Fiona), Matt Craven (Archie), Peter Boyle (George), Monika Schnarre (Laura), Joseph Maher (Dottor Alstricht), Mark Acheson, Philip Hayes, Christopher Mark Pinhey, Claudio De Vietor, Justine Priestly.
Producer: Robert Vince, William Vince.
Production company: Entertainment Securities, 23410 Civic Center Way, Suite B/9, Malibù, California, 90265 USA, tel. +1-310- 3174883, fax +1-3174903.
Foreign sales agent: Cinetel, 8255 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, 90046 California, USA, tel. +1-213-6544000, fax +1-213-6506400.
Screenplay: Gordon Melbourne.
Director of photography: Tobias SchliessIer.
Art director: Lynne Stopkewich.
Editor: Robin Russell.
Music: Graeme Coleman.
Cast and characters: Anthony LaPaglia (Mick), Mimi Rogers (Fiona), Matt Craven (Archie), Peter Boyle (George), Monika Schnarre (Laura), Joseph Maher (Dottor Alstricht), Mark Acheson, Philip Hayes, Christopher Mark Pinhey, Claudio De Vietor, Justine Priestly.
Producer: Robert Vince, William Vince.
Production company: Entertainment Securities, 23410 Civic Center Way, Suite B/9, Malibù, California, 90265 USA, tel. +1-310- 3174883, fax +1-3174903.
Foreign sales agent: Cinetel, 8255 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, 90046 California, USA, tel. +1-213-6544000, fax +1-213-6506400.