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Killing Them Softly

  • 20122012
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  • 1h 37m
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6.2/10
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Brad Pitt in Killing Them Softly (2012)
Jackie Cogan is a professional enforcer who investigates a heist that went down during a mob-protected poker game.
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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.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.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.
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
144K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
2,446
594
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    • Director
      • Andrew Dominik
    • Writers
      • Andrew Dominik(screenplay)
      • George V. Higgins(based on the novel "Cogan's Trade" by)
    • Stars
      • Brad Pitt
      • Ray Liotta
      • Richard Jenkins
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Andrew Dominik
    • Writers
      • Andrew Dominik(screenplay)
      • George V. Higgins(based on the novel "Cogan's Trade" by)
    • Stars
      • Brad Pitt
      • Ray Liotta
      • Richard Jenkins
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 481User reviews
    • 419Critic reviews
    • 64Metascore
    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 9 nominations

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    "Kill 'Em Softly"
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    "I Don't Take Orders from You"
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    "I Don't Take Orders from You"
    "Touchy Feely"
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    "Touchy Feely"
    "What's This All About?"
    Clip 0:35
    "What's This All About?"
    Killing Them Softly
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    Top cast

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    Brad Pitt
    Brad Pitt
    • Jackie
    Ray Liotta
    Ray Liotta
    • Markie Trattman
    Richard Jenkins
    Richard Jenkins
    • Driver
    Scoot McNairy
    Scoot McNairy
    • Frankie
    Ben Mendelsohn
    Ben Mendelsohn
    • Russell
    James Gandolfini
    James Gandolfini
    • Mickey
    Vincent Curatola
    Vincent Curatola
    • Johnny Amato
    Trevor Long
    Trevor Long
    • Steve Caprio
    Max Casella
    Max Casella
    • Barry Caprio
    Sam Shepard
    Sam Shepard
    • Dillon
    George Carroll
    George Carroll
    • Kenny Gill
    • (as Slaine)
    Linara Washington
    Linara Washington
    • Hooker
    Ross Brodar
    • Poker Guy
    Wade Allen
    Wade Allen
    • Business Suit Agent
    Christopher Berry
    Christopher Berry
    • Cab Driver Agent
    Kenneth Brown Jr.
    • Security Force Agent
    Mustafa Harris
    Mustafa Harris
    • Bartender #1
    Dared Wright
    Dared Wright
    • Waiter
    • Director
      • Andrew Dominik
    • Writers
      • Andrew Dominik(screenplay)
      • George V. Higgins(based on the novel "Cogan's Trade" by)
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    • Trivia
      The Turkish former minister of culture found the movie so offensive that he told the press that he wanted the age bar for this movie to be raised from 13 to 18 or, if possible, remove it from the theaters altogether.
    • Goofs
      After using his shotgun and putting it in the getaway car, Jackie wipes down the car of evidence but fails to retrieve his gun and his fingerprints on it.
    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      Barack Obama (on TV): [on TV delivering his election victory speech] ... to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth that out of many, we are one.

      Driver: You hear that line? Line's for you.

      Jackie Cogan: Don't make me laugh. We're one people. It's a myth created by Thomas Jefferson.

      Driver: Oh, now you're gonna have a go at Jefferson, huh?

      Jackie Cogan: My friend, Jefferson's an American saint because he wrote the words, "All men are created equal." Words he clearly didn't believe, since he allowed his own children to live in slavery. He was a rich wine snob who was sick of paying taxes to the Brits. So yeah, he wrote some lovely words and aroused the rabble, and they went out and died for those words, while he sat back and drank his wine and fucked his slave girl. This guy wants to tell me we're living in a community. Don't make me laugh. I'm living in America, and in America, you're on your own. America's not a country. It's just a business. Now fucking pay me.

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    • Soundtracks
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      Written by Carl Stone

      Performed by Carl Stone

    User reviews481

    Review
    Top review
    "It's a Barnum and Bailey world / just as phony as it can be"
    This isn't going to change your life, but it can kill some of your time. You might want to imagine this as a Coens black comedy but without much in the way of playful ruses or clever deconstruction that characterize their best work.

    Sure enough, Pitt and Jenkins were together in Burn After Reading, which aimed for a similar effect—trivial lives destroyed in petty schemes, and all that chaos and human buffoonery as a celestial poker game between callous, indifferent gods.

    The idea is that the world has been broken for some time now, caused by greed and selfishness. In the film, years ago a mob acquaintance robbed his own poker game and got away with it. This opens the ground for street punks to try it.

    It happens again only this time with complete incompetence. No one really cares about honor or friendship or even the truth of the thing, except the corporate guys who now run the show are paying for someone to take care of loose ends and public appearance.

    So, this paid for violence swoops into these lives and blindly wrecks everything.

    It is brutal to watch, but no one here is innocent. Only the drug-addled fool who got everyone into this mess is spared with prison time, because the laughing gods always take care of their court jester, who half-lives in divine hallucination, and is probably not even going to know the difference.

    But, Dominik is just too square for this. He insists on serious politics instead of letting us infer it. He pitches some of it as clowning, but then has elegiac Cash on the soundtrack and the filming emphasizes soft urban squalor. There is a baffling slow-motion scene, empty bravura.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • November 30, 2012 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Cogan's Trade
    • Filming locations
      • Claiborne Avenue Bridge, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
    • Production companies
      • Plan B Entertainment
      • 1984 Private Defense Contractors
      • Annapurna Pictures
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $15,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $15,026,056
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $6,812,900
      • Dec 2, 2012
    • Gross worldwide
      • $37,930,465
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 37 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • Datasat
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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