The Man Who Wasn't There
In 1949, Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton) is a low-key barber in the town of Santa Rosa, California. He is married to Doris (Frances McDormand), a bookkeeper with a drinking problem, and he works in a barber shop that belongs to his brother-in-law Frank (Michael Badalucco). A customer named Creighton Tolliver (Jon Polito) tells Ed that he's a businessman looking for investors to put up $10,000 in a new technology called dry cleaning. Ed decides to get the money by anonymously blackmailing Doris's boss, "Big Dave" Brewster (James Gandolfini), whom he knows to be having an affair with Doris. Dave embezzles money from his department store to pay the blackmail. However, he soon pieces together the scheme and beats[clarification needed] Tolliver until he implicates Ed. Dave confronts Ed at the store and attempts to kill him, but with a cigar knife Ed stabs Dave fatally. Read more on Wikipedia.
MPAA Rating: | R |
Genre: | Crime, Drama |
Country: | United Kingdom, United States |
Produced By: | John Cameron, Ethan Coen, Robert Graf, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Joel Coen |
Directed By: | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen |
Written By: | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen |
Cast: | Scarlett Johansson, Jon Polito, Lilyan Chauvin, Lloyd Gordon, Peter Schrum, Alan Fudge, Devon Cole Borisoff, Peter Siragusa, Jon Donnelly, Ron Ross, Rita Bland, Leonard Crofoot, Max Thayer, John Michael Higgins, Kenneth Hughes, Brooke Smith, Richard Jenkins, Michael Badalucco, E.J. Callahan, Frances McDormand, Ted Rooney, Jack McGee, Brenda Mae Hamilton, Tony Shalhoub, Paul G. Gray, Abraham Benrubi, Geoffrey Gould, Christopher McDonald, James Gandolfini, Booth Colman, Craig Berenson, Christian Ferratti, Gordon Hart, Don Donati, Stanley DeSantis, Katherine Borowitz, Rick Scarry, Cherilyn Hayres, Adam Alexi-Malle, Hallie Singleton, Billy Bob Thornton, Mary Bogue, Gregg Binkley, Jennifer Jason Leigh, George Ives, Tom Dahlgren, Rhoda Gemignani, Joan Blair, Phil Hawn, Michelle Weber, Nicholas Lanier, Christopher Kriesa, Dan Martin, Brian Haley, Randi Pareira |
In Theaters: | Nov 16, 2001 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 56 minutes |
Production: | USA Films |
Box Office: | $7,494,849 |
Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Vudu |