The Man Who Wasn't There
by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
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Actor: Billy Bob Thornton, Ethan Coen, Frances McDormand, Joel Coen, Michael BadaluccoDirector: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Brand: Universal
Producer: Ethan Coen
Writer: Ethan Coen
Producer: Joel Coen
Writer: Joel Coen
Producer: Eric Fellner
Producer: John Cameron
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 116 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-10-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of The Man Who Wasn't There
Movie Review: Good cast and cinematography but:
Summary: 1 Stars
In the Special Presentations, the Coen Brothers refer to The Big Sleep and Double Indemnity. I haven't seen all of their films, but this doesn't measure up to Raymond Chandler. Chandler's stories are more fantasy and fun. This one should be on the Chill Horror channel.
It's also a remake of Raising Arizona without the fun part. Not repeating yourself in art is difficult; but with the Coen's status, I guess they can do it if they want.
Based on the reviews, apparently there are a lot of viewers who feel good when they feel bad.
Summary of The Man Who Wasn't There
A dissatisfied barber in the 1940s decides to blackmail his wifes lover in order to get startup capital for a new dry cleaning business. The scheme begins to unravel and in the end everyone gets whats coming to them. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 01/06/2004 Starring: Billy Bob Thornton Brian Haley Run time: 116 minutes Rating: R Director: Joel CoenFor all of its late-1940s cold war paranoia, pulp fiction dialogue, and frenzied greed, Joel and Ethan Coen's The Man Who Wasn't There is their most cool and collected film since Blood Simple. An unassuming barber with a scheming wife (Frances McDormand) and a serious smoking habit, Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton) is an onlooker to his own life, a ghostly presence set against a silver-toned film noir backdrop. Only when he decides to alter his fate by blackmailing his wife's lover (James Gandolfini) in order to invest with a traveling salesman (Jon Polito) touting the wave of the future--dry cleaning--do we begin to hear the full extent of Ed's understated, existential lament. As his lawyer (Tony Shalhoub) says in Ed's defense at his eventual trial for murder, "He is modern man." Thornton's deadpan eloquence and cinematographer Roger Deakins's precision lighting offer the perfect counterbalance to the requisite one-liners, plot twists, and false endings that have come to characterize recent Coen brothers films. Almost in spite of the obsessive cultural references (flying saucers, Nabokov's Lolita, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle), Ed Crane steps neatly from the fray as one of cinema's most memorably disenchanted characters. --Fionn Meade
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