I Hired a Contract Killer

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• Genre(s): Comedy, Drama
• Language(s): English
• Director(s): Aki Kaurismäki, Kari Laine, Robert Fabbri
• Cast(s): Jean-Pierre Léaud, Margi Clarke, Kenneth Colley, T.R. Bowen, Angela Walsh See all Cast & Crew

• Duration: 1h 19min
• Music: Timo Linnasalo,Jouko Lumme,Tom Forsström,Danny Malone,Ronald Bailey
• Award(s): Jussi 1991 (Won)
  Golden Lion 1990 (Nominated) Awards List
• Similar To: Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, The Roses
• Story:
  After fifteen years' service, Henri Boulanger is made redundant from his job. Shocked, he attempts suicide, but can't go through with it, so he hires a contract killer in a seedy bar to murder him at some unspecified time in the future. But almost immediately he meets and falls in love with Margaret, a flower-seller, which makes Henri realise that his life has some meaning after all. But when he goes back to the bar to cancel the contract, he finds it has been demolished - and there's no way he can get in touch with the killer...
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