A high-strung yet winning crime comedy, Triggermen features an appealing cast in the story of two British con artists mistaken for a pair of seasoned assassins. Adrian Dunbar and Neil Morrissey play displaced, small-time thieves rotting away in Chicago and desperate to get home to the U.K. Morrissey's character has a solution: He takes a briefcase full of cash left in a hotel lobby for a pair of laidback, Yankee killers (Donnie Wahlberg, Michael Rapaport) hired through a second party to murder a Windy City crime boss (Pete Postlethwaite). The client (Louis Di Bianco) pressures the Brits to get the job done, while the real hitmen figure out they've been supplanted. It all makes for an enjoyable (and violent) lark, but an interesting angle finds Wahlberg's soft-spoken criminal anxious to get out of his trade (he falls for Postlethwaite's gorgeous daughter, played by Claire Forlani) while Morrissey becomes increasingly convincing as a gangster. --Tom Keogh
Alan Rossmore (Ed Begley Jr.) is a translator for the U.N. and together with his wife Beverly lives at the International Arms the zaniest building in all of New York since every resident is from a different country and slightly off his or her rocker. Back into their lives comes Freddie Fallon Alan's college roommate and former husband of Beverly's friend. He looks talks walks and has the same mannerisms as Freddie but their unwelcome guest announces himself as a top C.I.A. agent on the trail of a would be assassin hell bent in taking the life of President Reagan. Follow the trio as they embark on a series of hilarious encounters as each resident of International Arms becomes the prime suspect as the would be presidential assassin.
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