Underworld (1996)

Four years prior to filming one of Hollywood’s most notorious abominations, Battlefield Earth (2000), director Roger Christian helmed the competent comic thriller Underworld (1996). Denis Leary earns top billing as Johnny Crown, an incarcerated felon who’s released back into society vowing to take revenge on the men who killed his father. Crown figures that Father’s Day is an appropriate enough moment to empty rounds into the head of the mob boss (Joe Mantegna) who offed his dad, though his therapist/ex-wife (Annabella Sciorra) has some other, more constructive suggestions. Crown’s crazy to invite a trip back to the slammer; his first taste of freedom puts him within licking distance of Tracey Mannen and Heidi Schanz––a pretty convincing motivation for keeping clean.