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TITLE For Hire (1997)

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DISABILITY Cancer  Pancreatic

COUNTRY USA

LENGTH 96

GENRE Mystery?

DIRECTOR Jean Pellerin

CAST Rob Lowe

Joe Mantegna

Bronwen Booth
   

NOTES Rob Lowe plays taxi driver with theatrical pretensions. He's offered money to kill a drugs lord. He turns the offer down but later he has a lot of pain and passes out. Then he discovers he has a malignant inoperable cancer with only a 2% survival rate though he has up to a year before he pops his clogs (the Doc at this point doesn't say what kind of therapy). He's given tablets for the pain but turns down chemotherapy. This exposition is all dealt with perfunctorily.
So as you would expect he agrees to do the assassination. Then (of course) he is told he doesn't have pancreatic cancer or any other cancer (one review says he has prostrate cancer but I think I'm right). But he does have arsenic in his liver. It turns out that he is the victim of a con by the guy who wants him to kill someone.

 

 


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