Suicide Kings

Suicide Kings centres on a group of wealthy young men who kidnap a former New York mob boss. One of them needs two million dollars to pay the ransom demanded by whoever has taken his sister, and the friends decide that the gangster's connections are their only route to finding her. They seize him and try to force him to help, but their captive proves far more cunning than they expected, and the group begins to turn on itself as suspicion grows that someone close to them is involved in the abduction.

Peter O'Fallon directed the film, his second feature after Dead Silence in 1991, from a screenplay by Josh McKinney, Gina Goldman and Wayne Allan Rice; Rice also produced. Christopher Walken plays Carlo Bartolucci, the abducted crime boss, with Henry Thomas, Sean Patrick Flanery, Jay Mohr, Jeremy Sisto and Johnny Galecki among the captors. Around forty performers are credited, alongside a crew of roughly 245.

Made for about five million dollars, the film took in roughly two million at the worldwide box office, a return well below its production cost. On IMDb it holds 6.9 out of 10 from around 31,000 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 6.6 from far fewer, some 339. A critics' score of 5.4 from 32 reviews places it below both audience figures. It runs 106 minutes and mixes crime, thriller and comedy elements.