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The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
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Ratings: 7.7/10 from 53,469 users
Metascore:
73/100
Reviews: 411 user | 184 critic | 33 from Metacritic.com A laconic, chain-smoking barber blackmails his wife's boss and lover for money to invest in dry cleaning, but his plan goes terribly wrong. |
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| Scarlett Johansson | ... | ||
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Walter Abundas
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| Jack McGee | ... |
P.I. Burns
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| Gregg Binkley | ... |
The New Man
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Dr. Diedrickson
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Lilyan Chauvin | ... |
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1949, Santa Rosa, California. A laconic, chain-smoking barber with fallen arches tells a story of a man trying to escape a humdrum life. It's a tale of suspected adultery, blackmail, foul play, death, Sacramento city slickers, racial slurs, invented war heroics, shaved legs, a gamine piano player, aliens, and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Ed Crane cuts hair in his in-law's shop; his wife drinks and may be having an affair with her boss, Big Dave, who has $10,000 to invest in a second department store. Ed gets wind of a chance to make money in dry cleaning. Blackmail and investment are his opportunity to be more than a man no one notices. Settle in the chair and listen. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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El hombre que nunca estuvo See more »Box Office
Budget:
$20,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£419,609 (UK) (28 October 2001) (140 Screens)Gross:
$7,494,849 (USA) (24 February 2002)Company Credits
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Ed Crane: Yeah, I worked in a barbershop, but I never considered myself a barber. I stumbling into it. Or married into it, more precisely.
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Written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
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Billy Bob Thornton jokingly made it look like Ed Crane had an erection in one of the scenes where he's watching Scarlett Johansson's character playing the piano. Only one of the prop guys noticed during production. When the Coen Brothers later found out, they made it clear that Ed would not be aroused in the scene. See more »Goofs
Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the band is playing at the company party, the guitar player is seen strumming through what is clearly a drum solo. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Ed Crane: Yeah, I worked in a barbershop, but I never considered myself a barber. I stumbling into it. Or married into it, more precisely.
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The opening titles cast shadows on the wall as if they are real. See more »Soundtracks
"Some Enchanted Evening"Written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
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