I Hired a Contract Killer
Movie • 1990 • Comedy
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After fifteen years' service, Henri Boulanger is made redundant from his job. Shocked, he attempts suicide, but can't go through with it, so he hires a contract killer in a seedy bar to murder him at some unspecified time in the future. But almost immediately he meets and falls in love with Margaret, a flower-seller, which makes Henri realise that his life has some meaning after all. But when he goes back to the bar to cancel the contract, he finds it has been demolished - and there's no way he can get in touch with the killer...
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Is there domestic violence?
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The protagonist tries to first hang himself, then put his head in the oven, and then hires a hitman to kill him. Later there is a fakeout where it seems he is about to jump off a bridge, but he is fine
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