***SPOILERS**** Always drunk and nipping on a bottle of vodka hit-man for the local Buffalo Polish mob-The Cosa Polska-Frank Falenczyk, Ben Kingsley, is ordered by his boss Roman Krezminski, Phillip Baker Hall,to go west young man to far off San Francisco and dry out with Polish mob controlled real-estate agent Dave, Bill Pullman, getting him a place to stay as well as a job as an assistant undertaker for at a local funeral home. Besides that he's forced to attend AA meetings to get him straightened out an off the booze so he can stay awake and shoot straight on his next assignment by Roman. That's to knock off his rival in crime local Buffalo Irish mob boss Edward O'Leary played by Italian/American actor, and ex Chicago cop, Dennis Farina. It's O'Leary who together with the help of the New York Chinese mobsters who is planning to take over Roman's mob operations in Buffalo.
It's at the Doris Rainford, Alison Sealy-Smith, funeral parlor that Frank meets Laurel Pearson, Tea Leoni, who's there to have her dead step father readied for burial and Laurel not only turns out to be Frank's cup of tea, replacing all the booze that he's been drinking, but fall in love with her who's young enough to be his daughter. Juggling his affair with Laurel and staying off the sauce Frank starts to reevaluated his life and realizes that his job of killing people isn't as rewarding as he at first thought it was. Also his attempt to stop drinking doesn't go so well with him getting smashed at a party and ending up smashing one of the party goers car.
***SPOILERS**** It's when Frank gets the news that his boss Roman was knocked off back in Buffalo by the O'Leary gang he decides to take just one more shot, at O'Leary, before quitting the killing for hire business. But this time around he has a partner that he hadn't counted on to help him with the job his girlfriend Laurel Pearson to cover, unlike his late boss Roman, his back. Tender May to December love story between two people from different sides of the track who meet at a funeral parlor and later fall in love at an AA meeting hall. It's only after that one last hit-job on Irish mob boss Edward O'Leary- in revenge or payment in him having Roman knocked off-that the two love birds can kick it off and start a new crime free life in the "Golden State" in "The City by the Bay".
It's at the Doris Rainford, Alison Sealy-Smith, funeral parlor that Frank meets Laurel Pearson, Tea Leoni, who's there to have her dead step father readied for burial and Laurel not only turns out to be Frank's cup of tea, replacing all the booze that he's been drinking, but fall in love with her who's young enough to be his daughter. Juggling his affair with Laurel and staying off the sauce Frank starts to reevaluated his life and realizes that his job of killing people isn't as rewarding as he at first thought it was. Also his attempt to stop drinking doesn't go so well with him getting smashed at a party and ending up smashing one of the party goers car.
***SPOILERS**** It's when Frank gets the news that his boss Roman was knocked off back in Buffalo by the O'Leary gang he decides to take just one more shot, at O'Leary, before quitting the killing for hire business. But this time around he has a partner that he hadn't counted on to help him with the job his girlfriend Laurel Pearson to cover, unlike his late boss Roman, his back. Tender May to December love story between two people from different sides of the track who meet at a funeral parlor and later fall in love at an AA meeting hall. It's only after that one last hit-job on Irish mob boss Edward O'Leary- in revenge or payment in him having Roman knocked off-that the two love birds can kick it off and start a new crime free life in the "Golden State" in "The City by the Bay".