BUZZWORTHY: Brad Pitt In 'Killing Them Softly'

Killing Them Softly is a reunion for star Brad Pitt and director Andrew Dominik, who last collaborated on 2007's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Based on "Cogan's Trade," a 1974 bestselling crime novel by George V. Higgins, Killing Them Softly is also the first film of Dominik's to be played at the Cannes Film Festival.

Pitt plays Jackie Cogan, a professional enforcer who has been called in by the mob to punish those involved in a robbery during a high-stakes poker game. The supporting cast consists of on-screen mob alums James Gandolfini and Ray Liotta, so it can be expected that Killing Them Softly will contain all of the intensity, violence and vulgar language your little heart could desire.

—ALLISON VOLPE

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