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Oscar®-nominated director Richard Linklater's sunlit neo-noir stars Glen Powell (ANYONE BUT YOU, Linklater's EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!!) as straitlaced professor Gary Johnson, who moonlights as a fake hit man for the New Orleans Police Department. Preternaturally gifted at inhabiting different guises and personalities to catch hapless people hoping to bump off their enemies, Gary descends into morally dubious territory when he finds himself attracted to one of those potential criminals, a beautiful young woman named Madison (Adria Arjona, TV's ANDOR, Zoë Kravitz's upcoming BLINK TWICE). As Madison falls for one of Gary's hit man personas — the mysteriously sexy Ron — their steamy affair sets off a chain reaction of playacting, deception and escalating stakes. Co-written by Linklater and Powell and inspired by an unbelievable true story, HIT MAN is a cleverly existential comedy about identity. DIR/SCR/PROD Richard Linklater; SCR/PROD Glen Powell; PROD Jason Bateman, Mike Blizzard, Michael Costigan. U.S., 2023, color, 115 min. RATED R

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