Director: Richard Linklater
Richard Linklater's 2024 crime comedy takes a strange real-world premise and runs it toward increasingly reckless territory.
What is Hit Man about?
Gary Johnson is a mild-mannered college instructor moonlighting for the New Orleans police, tasked with posing as a contract killer to draw out people looking to hire one. What starts as a controlled undercover exercise shifts once a client's circumstances blur the line between the persona Gary performs and the person he's becoming, pulling him into a tangle of attraction, deception, and escalating risk that has nothing to do with his day job. As the assignment stretches past its intended limits, Gary finds the boundary between cover story and genuine desire increasingly difficult to hold.
Cast & crew
Glen Powell leads as Gary, with Adria Arjona, Austin Amelio, Retta, Sanjay Rao, Molly Bernard, Evan Holtzman, and Mike Markoff rounding out the cast.
Context & significance
Directed by Richard Linklater and released in 2024, the film blends action, comedy, and crime elements across a lean 115-minute runtime. It draws loosely on a real Houston-area case that inspired magazine reporting years earlier, though the film reshapes the material into its own comic thriller rather than a straight retelling. The pairing of Linklater's dialogue-driven style with a premise this pulpy gives the film a tone that shifts easily between deadpan humor and genuine tension. Powell also shares a story credit alongside Linklater, giving the lead performance an unusually direct hand in shaping how the character's double life plays out on screen.
Where & how to watch
Hit Man streams on K-Time with a free account login, available with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles for viewers who prefer either option. The platform's Farsi-first interface makes it straightforward to switch between audio and subtitle preferences before pressing play.