Betty (Renee Zellweger) is a waitress in a small American town. Unhappily married to a second-hand car salesman she longs to run away with Dr. David Ravell (Greg Kinnear), the glamorous leading man on a TV hospital soap opera. Charlie (Morgan Freeman) is a dangerous and yet philosophical hit man. Tiring of his lifestyle he dreams of doing one last big assignment and retiring to sunny Florida. When Betty's greedy husband puts together a drug deal, Charlie enters their world. When Charlie and his prot