TY - ADVS AU - Baker,Dylan AU - Brosnan,Pierce AU - Davis,Hope AU - Hall,Philip Baker AU - Kent,Rolfe AU - Kinnear,Greg AU - Kravetz-Aykanian,Carole AU - Scott,Adam AU - Shepard,Richard AU - Tattersall,David ED - DEJ Productions, Inc. ED - Equity Pictures Medienfonds GmbH & Co. KG II. ED - Furst Films. ED - Genius Products, Inc. ED - Irish Dreamtime (Firm) ED - Stratus Film Company. ED - Weinstein Company Home Entertainment (Firm) TI - The matador SN - 1594441200 PY - 2006/// CY - [New York, N.Y.], Solana Beach, CA PB - Weinstein Co. Home Entertainment, Distributed by Genius Products KW - Assassination KW - Drama KW - Assassins KW - Businessmen KW - Comedy films KW - Male friendship KW - Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.) KW - lcgft KW - Feature films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - Originally produced as a motion picture in 2004; Special features: optional audio commentary by Shepard; optional audio commentary by Brosnan, Kinnear & Shepard; 11 deleted & extended scenes, with optional audio commentary by Shepard (16 min. total); "Making 'The Matador'" featurette (7 min.); Shepard discusses the film on NPR's "The business" with Claude Brodesser (2005-02-21) & KCRW's "The treatment" with Elvis Mitchell (2006-01-11); theatrical trailer (3 min.); TV spot (1 min.); Director of photography, David Tattersall ; editor, Carole Kravetz-Aykanian ; music by Rolfe Kent; Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Hope Davis, Philip Baker Hall, Dylan Baker, Adam Scott; MPAA rating: R; for strong sexual content and language N2 - A struggling salesman forms an unexpected bond with a lonely hit man who suspects he's "lost his touch." ER -