The Man (2005)

Special Agent Derrick Vann is a man out to get the man who killed his partner but a case of mistaken identity leads him to Andy Fidler, a salesman with too many questions and a knack of getting in Vanns way.

Director:

Les Mayfield

Writers:

Jim Piddock (screenplay), Margaret Oberman (screenplay),

Stars:

Samuel L. Jackson, Eugene Levy, Miguel Ferrer

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Samuel L. Jackson	...	Derrick Vann
Eugene Levy	...	Andy Fiddler
Miguel Ferrer	...	Agent Peters
Luke Goss	...	Joey Kane
Susie Essman	...	Lt. Rita Carbone
Anthony Mackie	...	Booty
Gigi Rice	...	Susan
Rachael Crawford	...	Dara Vann
Philip Akin	...	Second I.A. Agent
Christopher Murray	...	Homeless Man
Joel S. Keller	...	Laptop Guy (as Joel Keller)
John Hemphill	...	Ted
Kathryn Greenwood	...	Flight Attendant
Carrie Cain-Sparks	...	Big Kim (as Carrie Cain Sparks)
George Ghali	...	Cab Driver

Storyline

A federal agent turns up dead and a hardcore undercover agent, known as Derrick Vann heads off to try and recover the stolen arms and find the killers. Andy Fiddler is an ordinary family man and a dentist, and is out heading to a conference, when he gets stuck in the same mess. Criminal Kane believes Fiddler is 'The Man' behind it all and offers him a gun. Vann spots him and drags him across town, with him posing as the actual 'Man'.

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Plot Keywords:

mistaken identity | salesman | criminal | car chase | gun smuggling | 

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Taglines:

Only one of them can be...

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Genres:

Action | Comedy | Crime

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for language, rude dialogue and some violence

Details

Official Sites:

New Line Cinema [us]

Country:

Germany USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

9 September 2005 (USA)

Also Known As:

Le boss

Filming Locations:

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$33,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$55,626 (South Africa) (4 November 2005)

Gross:

$132,547 (South Africa) (18 November 2005)

Company Credits

Production Co:

New Line Cinema, Fried Films, Meradin Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

83 min

Sound Mix:

SDDS Dolby Digital DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Luke Goss wears a Freemason's ring in the film.

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Goofs

When Vann pulls out in front of Andy who has stolen his car, Andy puts the car into a spin. The shots then alternate between the interior of the car where we can clearly see the windows are either down or clear to an exterior shot where the windows of the car are tinted and closed.

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Quotes

Special Agent Derrick Vann: [to Internal Affairs] You wanna charge me with not being upset, go right ahead.

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Connections

Spoofs Pulp Fiction (1994)

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Soundtracks

"Improvisation #4"
Written and Performed by Craig Wingrove

User Reviews

Give them something to work with.

Great story.Great action Great acting. The reason I give it a six is because it wasn't THAT funny. It was humorous at best. This i believe is the writers fault. The dialog just wasn't good enough. Eugene had nothing to work with. He still managed to make it work somehow.Remember Splash? Samuel played great his facial expressions were masterful. I have to admit that recently I might have been spoiled by Kiss Kiss Bang Bang which had the most amazing humorous dialog. Another thing that bothered me was that it was so obviously not Detriot. You can get away with making movies in Toronto in a lot of cases. But if you want to make us believe its Detroit then you gotta mess the place up a bit more.