13 September 1990 (1990-09-13) (Venice Film Festival)
12 October 1990 (1990-10-12) (Finland)
Running time
79 minutes[2]
Countries
Finland
United Kingdom
Sweden
France
Germany[1]
Languages
English Finnish
Budget
£800,000[3]
I Hired a Contract Killer is a film directed, produced and written by the Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki in 1990. It is a Finnish-British-German-Swedish co-production and stars the renowned French actor Jean-Pierre Léaud. The film also features a cameo appearance by Joe Strummer as a guitar player.[4]
The film's plot device of a man arranging for an assassin to kill him but later attempting to call off the deal is also used in the more famous 1998 American film Bulworth.[5]
^I Hired a Contract Killer (1990) - IMDb
^"I Hired a Contract Killer". British Board of Film Classification.
^"Back to the Future: The Fall and Rise of the British Film Industry in the 1980s - An Information Briefing" (PDF). British Film Institute. 2005. p. 24.
^"Joe Strummer keeps busy since Clash split". The Joe Strummer Resource. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2010.
^"'Bulworth,' Reviewed". The New Republic.
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