Killing Them Softly

“In America you're on your own.”

It's the fall of 2008, and an American city is wrapped in election noise and a collapsing economy. Three small-time crooks, Frankie (Scoot McNairy) and Russell (Ben Mendelsohn) among them, rob a card game the Mob protects, and the underworld's money stops moving. Andrew Dominik follows Jackie Cogan (Brad Pitt), the enforcer sent to fix it, while the campaign speeches keep playing from the radio.