R | 1h 27m | Comedy, Action, Thriller | April 4, 2023
Written by and starring Scott Caan, son of the great James Caan who played Sonny in “The Godfather,” “One Day as a Lion” is a fun, laconic, low-budget ensemble crime comedy, wherein everything is highly subject to multiple attacks of Murphy’s Law. Caan wrote a nice part for himself. This is Caan’s fourth produced screenplay.
Jackie (Scott Caan) making a call to his employer to report the fact that his intended target has ridden into town on a horse instead of driving a car, in the crime comedy, “One Day as a Lion.” (Lionsgate)
Jackie Powers (Caan) is an ex-boxer desperately in need of money. He’s been given the goon job of debt-collecting (or, failing that, killing the debtor) from a curmudgeonly, stubborn old cowboy named Walter Boggs (J.K. Simmons), who owes 100 large to local crime boss Pauly Russo (Frank Grillo). If Jackie whacks Walter, Pauly will pay for the attorney Jackie needs to help get his 15-year-old son Billy (Dash Melrose) out of juvenile detention….