Article: The Matador; STRANGE BEDFELLOWS; Kinnear and Brosnan star in one of the most flipped-out buddy films ever made.

Try imagining a movie directed by Quentin Tarantino and scripted by John Hughes and you may get a sense of The Matador's disarming schiziness. You know you're in for one nutty buddy film when Greg Kinnear plays a down-on-his-luck Denver executive who bonds with Pierce Brosnan in the role of a hit man having a nervous breakdown.

The two cross paths in a hotel bar in Mexico City. Both are in town on business. Danny Wright is trying to restart his career after being laid off by the company where he's worked for nearly a decade. He's desperate. If he doesn't land the account he's come all this way to pitch, the repercussions may be as bad for his marriage as for his bank account. Hope Davis ...

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