While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return to Buffalo and settle some old scores.
Frank Falenczyk loves his job. He just happens to be the hit-man for his Polish mob family in Buffalo, New York. But Frank's got a drinking problem and when he messes up a critical assignment that puts the family business in peril, his uncle sends him to San Francisco to clean up his act. Frank is not a touchy-feely kind of guy, but he starts going to AA meetings, gets a sponsor and a job at a mortuary where he falls for the tart-tongued Laurel, a woman who is dangerously devoid of boundaries. Meanwhile, things aren't going well in Buffalo where an upstart Irish gang is threatening the family business. When violence erupts, Frank is forced to return home and with an unlikely assist from Laurel, faces old rivals on new terms.
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Though much of the film takes place in San Francisco, only one day of filming took place there.
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Goofs
Factual errors:
The story that Frank tells regarding the assassination of William McKinley is incorrect. President McKinley was indeed assassinated in Buffalo as stated, but the rest of the story regarding the shooting and the search for the bullet in his body actually refers to the facts surrounding the death of President James A. Garfield.
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Quotes
Laurel Pearson:
Here's to granting others the serenity to change the things you cannot accept. Tom:
And the courage to accept large amounts of change serenely. Frank Falenczyk:
And the wisdom to know the difference. See more »