Australian filmmaker Andrew Dominik has only made three films in the past twelve years, but they've all been fairly unforgettable from his early crime film Chopper , which introduced the world to Eric Bana, to The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford , a Western starring Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck and others that recreated a very specific story from the Old West. Now Dominik is back with Killing Them Softly , based on George Higgins' 1974 novel "Cogan's Trade," and he once again got Brad Pitt on board to play Jackie Cogan, a hitman called in by the mob to clean up loose ends after the robbery of a high stakes poker game by two junkie punks, played by Scoot McNairy and Ben Mendelsohn. It's a gritty, dialogue-driven crime film in the vein of films by Guy...
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