Assassination Tango is a 2002 crime film written, produced, directed by, and starring Robert Duvall

Robert Duvall

Robert Selden Duvall is an American actor and director. He has won an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and a BAFTA over the course of his career....

. It is a thriller about an assassin's discovery of Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 tango

Tango (dance)

Tango dance originated in the area of the Rio de la Plata , and spread to the rest of the world soon after....

. Other actors include Rubén Blades

Rubén Blades

Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna is a Panamanian salsa singer, songwriter, lawyer, actor, Latin jazz musician, and politician, performing musically most often in the Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz genres...

, Kathy Baker

Kathy Baker

Katherine Whitton "Kathy" Baker is an American stage, film and television actress.-Career:Baker began her career at San Francisco's Magic Theatre, performing in several of Sam Shepard's plays before getting her break in an off-Broadway production of Fool for Love opposite Ed Harris...

 and Duvall's wife, Luciana Pedraza

Luciana Pedraza

Luciana Duvall is an Argentine actress and director. She is married to American fellow actor Robert Duvall, and is the granddaughter of Argentine aviation pioneer Susana Ferrari Billinghurst....

. Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors...

 was one of the executive producers; the majority of the film was shot in Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

. Some scenes at the beginning and end of the story were filmed in Coney Island, Brooklyn.

Plot

Anderson (Duvall) is a successful American hitman whose employer sends him to do a job in Argentina. His contacts inform him that his target is a former General. Things are not as easy as they seem. A paranoid Anderson simultaneously rents a room in two different Hotels. From the safety but close proximity of one Hotel room, he witnesses police converge on the other Hotel. Anderson will fulfill his obligation to do the job, despite the obvious reality that there is a leak. We witness the conspirator Miguel (Rueben Blades) being harshly interrogated by Buenos Aires police. Miguel can eventually breathe a sigh of relief, when his conspirator within the Argentinian Federal Authorities shows up. Anderson (Duvall) eventually makes it out of Argentina safely. ....The character of Jo-Jo is a small supporting role played by Frank Cassavetes, a son of the late Director John Cassvetes and actress Gena Rowlands.