When a ruthless mafia hitman is asked to kill a man on Christmas Day, he questions the ethics of murder and becomes desperate to find a way to avoid desecrating his favorite holiday.

SYNOPSIS:

Marco, a loyal Italian mafia enforcer, struggles to get into the Christmas spirit as he spends his December days hunting and eliminating traitorous former members of the mafia family.

The only way that Marco will ever get a break so he can focus on the true meaning of Christmas and spend time with his loving wife and son, is to find and kill Dante, the elusive leader of the treasonous faction.

Frustrated by the financial costs of the gang war, Marco’s boss orders him to break their moral code of honor by executing Dante at his home, in front of his family on Christmas Day. Marco protests but is warned that he will be considered a traitor as well if he doesn’t follow orders.

The boss sends everyone else but Marco back to business as usual, and he is granted until Christmas Eve, to find another way to kill Dante. Not fully trusting Marco to carry out his primary orders, his boss sends his nephew along to keep a watchful eye.

Marco chokes answers out of a bartender with a strand of Christmas lights, chases a suspect through a Christmas tree farm, raids one of Dante’s heavy-weight-ex-girlfriend’s homes, tortures a reptile-obsessed-ex-girlfriend who owns a male strip-club, all while confiding in his uncle, a Catholic priest, who helps him maintain any sense of honor.

The boss’ nephew suspects that Marco is losing heart, and the boss convinces him to murder Marco’s uncle and frame Dante, to provide the motivation needed to do the job.

After his uncle’s death, Marco is sufficiently enraged and violently raids Dante’s house on Christmas. As Marco is about to execute Dante, he discovers that the boss’ nephew is the murderer.

Marco lets Dante live, carries out a plan to deliver his boss and the nephew to the cops and skips town with his wife and son, giving up his life of crime forever.

While serious themes of ethics and honor are explored, Marco’s story is a dark-comedy with ever-present Christmas charm that will give fans of ‘Die Hard’ another action-packed film for their holiday collection.

NO KILLING ON CHRISTMAS