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Killer Joe is a american film of genre Drama directed by William Friedkin released in USA on 27 july 2012 with Matthew McConaughey
Killer Joe (2011)
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Add to a movie listKiller Joe is a 2011 American Southern Gothic crime film directed by William Friedkin. The screenplay by Tracy Letts is based on his 1993 play of the same name. The film stars Matthew McConaughey in the title role, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Gina Gershon and Thomas Haden Church. Friedkin and Letts had similarly collaborated on the 2006 film Bug.
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In West Dallas, Texas, 22-year-old drug dealer Chris Smith (Hirsch), desperate to pay his debt to loan sharks, decides to murder his mother, Adele, to collect the $50,000 of insurance money. He has been told by his mother's boyfriend Rex that the sole beneficiary will be Chris' younger sister Dottie (Temple). Assuming Dottie would share any money she gets with them, Chris manages to rope his dim-witted father Ansel (Haden Church) into a conspiracy to kill Adele – who is Ansel's ex-wife – to get the money. Chris also enlists the help of Joe Cooper (McConaughey), a police detective who has a side career as a contract killer. Ansel plans to split the money four ways between themselves, Dottie, and Ansel's new wife Sharla (Gershon). Dottie hears the plan as they are talking, and agrees that it's a good idea.Actors
Matthew McConaughey
(Det. Joe 'Killer Joe' Cooper)
Emile Hirsch
(Chris Smith)
Juno Temple
(Dottie Smith)
Gina Gershon
(Sharla Smith)
Thomas Haden Church
(Ansel Smith)
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