Killing Them Softly (2012)
Brad Pit stars as Jackie Cogan in Killing Them Softly, a crime drama film based on the novel Cogan's Trade, released in 1974. Cogan is a hitman who is sent to hunt down those responsible for a poker game where mafia members were robbed. However, Cogan will have to dig deeper than two amateur robbers to get to the bottom of this off-kilter crime.
Killing Them Softly
- Director
- Andrew Dominik
- Release Date
- December 13, 2012
- Studio(s)
- The Weinstein Company
- Distributor(s)
- The Weinstein Company
- Cast
- Brad Pitt , James Gandolfini , Ray Liotta , Richard Jenkins
- Writers
- Andrew Dominik
- Runtime
- 97minutes
- Budget
- $15 million
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