The first play by Tracy Letts, who went on to win the 2008 Pulitzer Prize (for August: Osage County),
...is set in a Texas trailer park. When hit man Joe Cooper is hired by the dissolute Smith family to murder the matriarch for insurance money.
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He takes the family’s innocent daughter as a retainer against his final payoff, which sets in motion a bloody aftermath as the “hit man” meets his match.
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