I enjoyed the screen adaptation of "Thinner" (about the guy who accidentally killed an old gypsy woman when he hit her with his car).

There's a part in the story in which the main character resorts to using a mobster for help. That character, in my mind, would have been perfectly portrayed by Joe Spinell (Willie Cicci in "The Godfather"), although the actor who portrayed him (Joe Mantegna) did a very good job.