(MCT) — There’s nothing quite like the love between a man and his dog. Especially when that guy is a gangster and a certifiable whack job. And the canine is ... well, a shih tzu. And missing.

That’s the setup for Academy Award-winning writer-director Martin McDonagh’s new film, “Seven Psychopaths,” which stars Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken and Woody Harrelson, and hits theaters Friday.

Harrelson plays Charlie, the psycho with the pooch fixation, relentlessly pursuing dognappers Billy and Hans (Rockwell and Walken), and Marty (Farrell), an alcoholic screenwriter swept up in the chaos who just happens to be writing a script called ... “Seven Psychopaths.”