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Murder’s cheaper than Starbucks in urban-legend short

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By Steve Jansen

Published on July 30, 2008 at 4:01am

If you lived in India during the ’90s, you could hire a hit man for the price of a cup of truck-stop coffee. Pretty funny, right? Tim Budinger, co-writer of the locally produced short film Discount Assassin, thought so. Okay, maybe not laugh-out-loud-that’s-awesome” funny, but he did use the urban legend as the starting point for a flick that stars Phoenix improv stalwart Bill Binder as a dude who murders people for a $3 a pop. The screening – which includes a blooper reel, some other flicks by co-producer Shaun Clayton, and a Q&A – starts at 8:30 p.m.
Sat., Aug. 2, 8:30 p.m., 2008