Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back)

William, a struggling writer, has repeatedly failed at taking his own life. He decides to delegate the task and hires Leslie, a contract killer whose career is winding down. The deal is straightforward: a quick, painless death within a week, or the money is returned. Leslie, however, needs the job to go ahead. With his employers pressuring him and retirement looming, he cannot afford to let the contract lapse. William then finds that his fortunes may be turning, and the arrangement he thought he wanted becomes a problem he has to escape.

Dead in a Week (Or Your Money Back) is a British action comedy drama written and directed by Tom Edmunds, his debut feature behind the camera. Aneurin Barnard plays William, Tom Wilkinson plays Leslie, and the cast also includes Freya Mavor, Christopher Eccleston, Marion Bailey and Velibor Topic, across twenty-four credited roles. The film runs ninety minutes and was released in September 2018.

On IMDb the film holds a rating of 5.3 out of 10 from 25 reviews, while on TMDB it scores 6.3 out of 10 from 370 votes, a gap of roughly one point that suggests audiences responded more warmly than critics. Given its modest independent British production, those figures point to a small cult following rather than a wide commercial breakthrough.