Just read the book (why? I don't know) but thought it was funny. I don't exactly know how you could translate the humor of the book into a movie. With such line as,"Joe the Wop died of natural causes. His heart stopped beating after knife was stuck in it."
shareI agree with gple...... above - I gave the book to my father for his birthday and later after he had retired for the night, we could hear him laughing uproariously from his bedroom upstairs. Breslin could write!
shareI never saw "… Shoot Straight" but the quote you mention is very similar to one in the movie "Analyze That" (2002) which goes like this:
Dr. Ben Sobel I thought you were in prison?
Jelly : It would appear not.
Dr. Ben Sobel : How'd you get out?
Jelly I had a new trial. Turns out that the evidence in the first trial was tainted.
Dr. Ben Sobel : O, I see
Jelly : Anyway, two of the witnesses decided not to testify and the third guy, well, he commited suicide.
Dr. Ben So: How?
Jelly : He stabbed himself in the back four times and threw himself off a bridge.
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