One Day as a Lion

Crime comedy following Jackie Powers (Scott Caan), a nice guy and lousy hitman who’s sent to take out a crafty debtor (J.K. Simmons) but only pisses him off. Also stars Frank Grillo.

Fleeing the scene Jackie takes bored waitress, Lola, as a hostage revealing he needs money to get his son out of jail. As Lola cooks up a scheme for them to get cash from her dying mother (Virginia Madsen), a thug sent to kill Jackie is sleeping with the hitman’s ex. 

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