Sentences with phrase «hired killers who»

He was supposedly shot in the head by hired killers who were made to believe he was a child molester.

The rest is exploring unfounded suspicions and the usual range of motivations; dealing with antagonists of various stripes [from a sheik who has a tax - free ostrich racing concern in the desert, to Hassansins — hired killers who use drugs to see into the future], and action set pieces that pretty much rock — even before the effects crew embellish them.

Not exact matches

When he had to squeeze extra floors into a new building, he called Sandy Lindenbaum, a zoning - law guru who called himself «the last of the gunslingers»; when he needed the New Jersey Casino Control Commission to see things his way, he turned to Atlantic City fixture Nick Ribis; when he wanted to divorce Ivana (and, later on, her successor, Marla Maples), he retained Jay Goldberg, a self - described «killer» who says he can «rip skin off a body»; when it was tax time, he reversed decades of bragging about his billions and had tax attorneys say his properties were worth only a fraction of what he had publicly proclaimed (an ongoing tax appeal in Chicago declares Trump Tower Chicago «a failed business»); when he was in the market for a troubleshooter, he hired Michael Cohen, who has threatened journalists who've written about Trump with bodily harm.

It tells the story of a loser in debt (Emile Hirsch), his sexy - virginal younger sister (Juno Temple), their stupid, spineless father (Thomas Haden Church), his slutty, cheating wife (Gina Gershon), and a sick slickster of an hombre (Matthew McConaughey, in his second riveting performance of the year, following Magic Mike) who supplements his police - detective day job as a killer for hire.

She marries one of her former lovers, Randy (David Duchovny), who takes up Sharon's evangelical fervor to atone for his past as a hired killer, and they have a daughter.

We often associate Clooney with upbeat, fun - loving roles, but the man he plays in The American is the hollow shell of an individual - one who has severed all emotional connections in order to maintain his edge as a hired killer.

To make sure the job goes off without a hitch, Chris has even hired a contract hitman who never fails — a psychotic cop in a Stetson hat and skin - tight jeans called Killer Joe Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) who moonlights as an assassin.

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Warren Oates takes the lead as a former bounty hunter hired to track a man by the mysterious Millie Perkins, who toys with Oates» childlike partner (Will Hutchins), and Jack Nicholson co-stars as a sadistic, black - clad killer.

Steinfeld, who was just 13 when she shot her debut performance in «True Grit,» also is a strong contender as a girl who hires lawman Cogburn to track down her father's killer.

Continuing a string of interesting characters, McConaughey was a police officer moonlighting as a contract killer who is hired to off the mother of a small - time drug dealer (Emile Hirsch) in William Friedkin's darkly comedic thriller «Killer Joe» (2011), a role that earned him an Indie Spirit Award nomination for Best killer who is hired to off the mother of a small - time drug dealer (Emile Hirsch) in William Friedkin's darkly comedic thriller «Killer Joe» (2011), a role that earned him an Indie Spirit Award nomination for Best Killer Joe» (2011), a role that earned him an Indie Spirit Award nomination for Best Actor.

The other is that two cute girls, ages 18 and 17, who look like the sort that any parent would love, are serial killers, guns for hire who in the story's leading incidents are motivated by the wish for money to buy expensive dresses.

They meet a man (William Petersen) who has hired a contract killer to shoot him and a survivalist (Derek Luke) who unreasonably believes all of his preparations will help him, and they come across a chain restaurant named Chipper's.

Chris Smith (an annoying Emile Hirsch), a working - class stiff and part - time drug dealer, and none too bright, decides to hire a contract killer (whose day job is being a police detective) to dispose of his mother, Adele, who, he thinks, has stolen from him (an act which has put him in trouble with some local gangsters).

Here, he plays the titular Killer Joe Cooper as a fastidious, meticulous detective who runs a murder - for - hire «business on the side».

But DiCaprio was clearly impressed anyway, as he hired Moore to adapt the beloved best - seller «The Devil In The White City,» about serial killer H.H. Holmes who may have murdered as many as 200 people against the backdrop of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.

Erstwhile elf and occasional pirate Orlando Bloom returns to the West End for the first time in a decade to star as a cop who moonlights as a killer - for - hire in this revival of US playwright Tracy Letts's 1993 play.

Interstellar movie director, Christopher Nolan and the brother who allegedly hired a killer to murder the family's accountant.

This mythical tale of retribution and redemption unfolds in Fort Smith, Arkansas in the 1870s, where we find the film's young narrator, Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), eager to hire the meanest bounty hunter around to apprehend Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), the killer who has just murdered her father in cold blood.

Blooms stars as Joe Cooper, a policeman who doubles up as a killer - for - hire in this 1993 play which was adapted into a film in 2011 starring Matthew McConaughey in the title role.

Making masterful use of the first - person narrative, he introduces Jimmy McShane, who is hired to solve the grisly murder of a shady dealer in rare antiquities and is pitted against a killer whose methods include cobra venom and disembowelment.

Yet whether that investigation results in punishment for the killers — or those who likely hired them — is deeply uncertain.

One of the worst decisions both women and men make: hiring a «killer» divorce attorney who will «fight» for them.