Parting Shots
- IMDb link: 0123215
- IMDb rating: 5.1 (1,176 votes)
- Genres: Comedy, Crime, Romance
- Director: Michael Winner, Bob Hoskins, John Cleese
- Cast: Chris Rea, Felicity Kendal and others
- Release date: 14 May 1999
- Release year: 1998
- Runtime: 99 minutes
- Country: United Kingdom
- Keywords: dark comedy, cancer, dying, photographer, pistol, love, murder, vigilante, chef, hitman
Plot:
Harry Sterndale (Chris Rea) is a photographer who has been given bad news from his doctor that he is dying of cancer and he has only three months left to live. Before he dies, Harry looks back on his life and remembers all of the people who have made his life a misery, and he decides to kill those who have hurt and crossed him. Armed with a pistol, Harry sets out to give those people a dose of their own medicine, and he'll be dead by the time he stands trial and gets locked up in jail. When Harry meets and falls in love with a woman named Jill Saunders (Felicity Kendal), who works for Gerd Layton (Bob Hoskins), the greedy businessman who ripped him off, things start going wrong, when Harry kills unpleasant foreign chef Renzo Locatelli (Sir Ben Kingsley) and the Police begin investigating the murders, and an aging hitman named Jamie Campbell-Stewart (Oliver Reed) is on his trail.