This family knows where it stands, and always has done.
Bob Hoskins has top-lined a number of films over the course of his career (with 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit being the one that garnered him the most attention), but as far as I'm concerned, his greatest acting showcase is 1999's Felicia's Journey, which was Atom Egoyan's follow-up to The Sweet Hereafter. It was Egoyan's second adaptation in a row (of a novel by William Trevor), which probably had some people worried that he was no longer interested in generating his own material, but as Ararat showed a few years later they needn't have worried. Still, this film took him far out of his comfort zone as it's set (and was shot) entirely in Great Britain and Ireland. In terms of its overarching themes and the obsessive nature of Hoskins's character, though, it was right in his wheelhouse.
Hoskins plays a highly detail-oriented catering manager for a large factory in Birmingham whose soft-spoken manner belies the fact that he's a deranged serial killer who specializes in troubled young women. That profile definitely fits Irish lass Elaine Cassidy, who's come in search of her boyfriend, who left without giving her his address, which is rather inconvenient considering he left her with something else. Each time Hoskins runs into her, he's ever so helpful, going to great lengths to convince her that there's nothing sinister about the way he's taken an obvious interest in her. Slowly buy surely, though, his true nature becomes known to us as we begin to notice the cracks in his facade, many of which stem from his complicated relationship with his deceased mother, a once-famous TV chef played by Arsinée Khanjian whose show seems to play on an endless loop on Hoskins's television (which is set up in the kitchen so he can obsessively recreate her signature dishes). As for Cassidy, her story is revealed through more conventional flashbacks, which go a long way toward establishing what she left behind in Ireland and what she hopes to rekindle by reconnecting with her Johnny. Whether Hoskins will allow her to see either again is another matter.