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Kiss Toledo Goodbye | |
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Directed by | Lyndon Chubbuck |
Written by | Robert Easter |
Starring |
Michael Rapaport Christopher Walken Christine Taylor Robert Forster Nancy Allen |
Cinematography | Frank Byers |
Edited by | Rebecca Ross |
Music by | Phil Marhsall |
Release date | April 15, 2000 (United States) |
Running time | 96 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Kiss Toledo Goodbye is a 1999 independent comedy/ thriller film directed by Lyndon Chubbuck. It stars Michael Rapaport, Christopher Walken, Robert Forster, Nancy Allen and Christine Taylor. Rapaport plays a young man who suddenly learns that the biological father he knew nothing about is a crime lord. Upon witnessing his father's death, he is expected to join forces with his new "family" and is challenged to prove himself.
Following the assassination of his crime-boss biological father ( Robert Forster), whom he had not even known existed, a young Ohio investment advisor ( Michael Rapaport) must impersonate a Mafia Godfather for a few weeks to prevent a gang war.
He tries to keep this new life secret from his real family, especially his very jealous fiancée ( Christine Taylor), with the help of his new "family" and his father's chief lieutenant ( Christopher Walken). At the same time he is being pressured by his boss at work to sign-off on a due diligence report for a questionable investment, trying to keep his family safe, dodging assassination attempts, and trying to uncover who killed his father.
Nathan Rabin wrote in The A.V. Club, "A ham-fisted comedy that plays like a series of sewn-together outtakes from superior films... Chubbuck presides over Kiss Toledo Goodbye with a leaden comic touch appropriate to his experience directing Baywatch, while displaying all the visual style of a first-time director of amateur porn." [1]