The American (2010) on Netflix
After an ambush in the snow, hit man Jack flees to Italy and takes the name Edward in a mountain village. There he is asked to build a custom sniper rifle.
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Plot summary
Jack and his lover Ingrid are staying at a cabin in Sweden when he spots footprints in the snow and a sniper opens fire. He escapes and makes his way to Rome, where his contact Pavel refuses to let him stay and directs him to Castelvecchio, a town in Abruzzo. Jack goes instead to nearby Castel del Monte and uses the name Edward. Pavel arranges work for him: Mathilde asks Jack to construct a custom rifle designed to her specifications. In town, the priest Father Benedetto befriends him, and Jack begins calling on Clara, a local prostitute; the two start a relationship.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The American (2010)
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- The restaurant date between Jack and Clara was shot at a restaurant in Pacentro, near Sulmona. Director Anton Corbijn directed the comic-acting waiter to stand in front of a two-bulb lamp fixture so that he appeared to have "devil's horns".
- In the film, Once Upon a Time in the West, with Henry Fonda facing off as the villain, plays on a television in the modest restaurant where Jack eats. Anton Corbijn called this an homage and said the American Western and the Italian-American Spaghetti Westerns by Leone and others were explicit models for The American.
