Bill Murray Shoots People While Jennifer Coolidge Shoots Her Shot in ‘Riff Raff’ Trailer

· Rolling Stone

There’s something embarrassing about being hunted down by a gangster who calls himself Leftie and runs around with a henchman called Lonnie. Those names should belong to the sweet old guys at the local nursing home. Instead, in the trailer for the action-comedy Riff Raff, they belong to Bill Murray and Pete Davidson, a gun-wielding duo out for revenge.

“You know, once you start killing, it sort of becomes your de facto solution for every problem,” Leftie (Murray) says in the clip. Killing is what kicked off this whole ordeal in the first place. His primary target is Vincent, a former criminal whose son Rocco (Lewis Pullman) murdered Leftie’s son Jonathan. And because grief knows no bounds, Leftie is willing to take the whole family down for it.

That includes Vincent’s ex-wife Ruth (Jennifer Coolidge) — who has some bizarre, fear-induced sexual attraction to Leftie — and his current wife Sandy (Gabrielle Union), who he’s vacationing with when all hell breaks loose. It’s a tangled mess of connections punctuated with quite a few bullet holes courtesy of Leftie and Lonnie.

“It’s about a kind of screwed up family that does a lot of screwy stuff. I guess it’s about weird people,” director Dita Montiel said on a panel at the Toronto International Film Festival. “It was written by John Pollono as a play, and I remember reading it and thinking, oh wow. It made me think of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with a family full of Virginia Woolfs.”

The film hits theaters on Feb. 28.