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The Coldwell Banker Assassin

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Real Estate Agent with www.ExploreBeaufortRealEstate.com (Ballenger Realty) 27941


Beaufort, SC, real EstateNext time you think you're having a bad day, consider the fate of poor Audrey Wasilewski, a Coldwell Banker agent in Louisiana. Not only is she enduring the same challenging market forces as the rest of us, Ms. Wasilewski had a rocket-propelled grenade blow up in her face.

My son and I saw the very excellent movie Red Sunday. Bruce Willis plays a retired CIA agent who is sucked back into action after a  hit is placed on him by none other than the vice president of the United States. At every turn, Willis and his colleagues -- Mary-Louise Parker,  John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren -- confront danger from teams of hit-men......and hit-women. 

One of the would-be assassins is Ms. Wasilewski, who portrays a seemingly hapless real estate agent who is mistakenly threatened -- and almost gets her head blown off -- by the ever-paranoid Marvin Boggs, played brilliantly by Malkovich. Thanks to Willis' character, Frank Moses, Ms. Wasilewski barely escapes with her life from the unstable Boggs.

Well, as is the case with most Realtors, Ms. Wasilewski is not quite as hapless or as helpless as the rest of the world would believe, and minutes later, she re-emerges onto the screen harnessing an impressive cache of firepower. Yes, Boggs was right, and Ms. Wasilewski was a hit man after all. Unfortunately, for Wasilewski, Boggs is just a little better than she is, and she ends up eating the aforementioned rocket-propelled grenade, before going to that great closing in the sky.

If you are looking for a good way to spend a couple of hours, I would recommend Red, if nothing else to see what happens when a Realtor finally goes over the edge.

And I do believe Wasilewski's brief performance should be enough to land her in the Cinematic Realtor Hall of Fame, alongside Annette Benning's memorably compulsive Realtor character in American Beauty. 

But I can't decide who I would rather co-broke a transaction with, the neurotic Benning, or the lethal, cold-blooded Wasilewski, who bears more than just a little resemblance to some of the agents in my market.
 


Comments (1)

Norma Toering Broker for Palos Verdes and Beach Cities
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Loved your review and a movie with a real estate agent that goes over the edge is one I want to see.

Oct 25, 2010 01:32 AM