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The Assignment
The Assignment (also known as Tomboy, Revenger (in Australia) and formerly known as (Re) Assignment and Tomboy: A Revenger's Tale) is an action crime thriller film directed by Walter Hill and co-written by Hill and Denis Hamill. The film stars Michelle Rodriguez, Tony Shalhoub, Anthony LaPaglia, Caitlin Gerard, and Sigourney Weaver.
Plot
Dr. Rachel Jane is a rogue plastic surgeon with a twisted vision of a better world. After losing her medical license, she began an illegal practice and performed unwanted surgical experiments on impoverished homeless people. The film is split between a present-day timeframe in which she has been institutionalized and her condition is being assessed by Dr. Ralph Galen, and a second timeframe two years into the past.
More details
| author | Denis Hamill Walter Hill |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | California |
| director | Walter Hill |
| editor | Philip Norden |
| genre | action crime live-action thriller |
| keywords | attack discover expect gender reassignment surgery id impoverish kill learn life and death lose meet mental breakdown murder mutilate plastic surgeon sever tape recorder twist |
| musicBy | Ry Cooder |
| producer | Harvey Kahn Michel Merkt Saïd Ben Saïd |
| productionCompany | SBS Films |
| publisher | Saban Films |
| recordedAt | Vancouver |
| theme | stag |