
Killing Them Softly(2012)
Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.


“A love story haunted by murder.”
Tim Madden awakens one morning to discover a fresh tattoo on his arm, his car covered in blood, his girlfriend in bed with the town sheriff, and a woman's severed head in his weed stash. Sensing a setup and in desperate need to clear his name, he begins an investigation that soon begins to expose a web of corruption in the small coastal community of Provincetown.

Ryan O'Neal
Tim Madden

Isabella Rossellini
Madeleine Regency

Debra Stipe
Patty Lareine

Wings Hauser
Capt. Alvin Luther Regency

John Bedford Lloyd
Wardley Meeks III

Lawrence Tierney
Dougy Madden

Penn Jillette
Big Stoop

Frances Fisher
Jessica Pond

John Snyder
Spider
Stephan Morrow
Stoodie
Tough Guys Don't Dance is a comedy, crime, thriller film released in 1987 exploring themes of vietnam veteran, amnesia, based on novel or book, alcohol, cocaine, massachusetts. Directed by Norman Mailer, it stars Ryan O'Neal, Isabella Rossellini, Debra Stipe. Tim Madden awakens one morning to discover a fresh tattoo on his arm, his car covered in blood, his girlfriend in bed with the town sheriff, and a woman's severed head in his weed stash. Sensing a setup and in desperate need to clear his name, he begins an investigation that soon begins to expose a web of corruption in the small coastal community of Provincetown.
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