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Richard Linklater’s Hit Man looks like a goofy roleplaying romcom in new trailer
The truth is mostly stranger than fiction in Linklater’s Hit Man.
Loosely based on journalist Skip Hollandsworth’s 2001 Texas Monthly article by the same name, Hit Man tells the tale of Gary Johnson (Glen Powell), an unassuming college professor who spends his free time pretending to be a mercenary to help police flush out folks who intend to put hits on people. Though Gary’s disguises make him look like a cheesy character out of a film or show about shady criminals, that seems to be what convinces people that he’s legit before the officers he works for (Retta, Sanjay Rao) swoop in with handcuffs. There’s a lot more subtlety and smoothness to the persona Gary slips into once he’s hired by Maddy Masters (Adria Arjona), a woman looking to have her husband murdered.
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