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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
A similarly breezy, offbeat hitman comedy: professional violence collides with romantic baggage, deadpan humor, and a stressed-out assassin trying to regain control of his personal life.
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Why this pick
Pairs suburban relationship chaos with mob danger in the same light, knowingly absurd register, letting escalating criminal complications play as a comedy of anxious personalities.
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Why this pick
Its fast, self-aware crime plotting, mismatched partners, Los Angeles sheen, and sarcastic romantic tension echo the playful action-comedy energy behind Melvin’s misadventures.
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Why this pick
Another comic take on a lonely, emotionally dysfunctional contract killer, built around an unlikely friendship and humor that comes from the gap between lethal work and everyday neediness.
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Why this pick
Matches the glossy late-1990s-style pleasure of cool action, comic bickering, slick criminal schemes, and characters whose competing agendas keep the pace buoyant.
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01 / THE STORY
Melvin Smiley has good life thanks to his talents as a contract-killer, but has a very working class mentality going about his life, in combination with his constant struggles to maintain two romantic relationships. One with the demanding and demeaning Chantel, who does not accept his work, and another with Pam, who knows nothing of his job. Melvin is somewhat of a pushover, trying to appease all of Chantel's demands, even her most expensive wishes, as well as rolling over whenever one of his co-workers takes credit for his achievements. Perhaps as a result of his helplessness in asserting himself, throughout the early scenes, Melvin is often seen drinking Maalox to relieve a developing stress-induced Peptic ulcer.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Melvin Smiley
Cisco
Pam Shulman
Paris
Crunch
Morton Shulman
Keiko Nishi
Jeanne Shulman
