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Title: The Minus Man (1999)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Owen Wilson | ... | Vann | |
| Sheryl Crow | ... | Casper | |
| Dwight Yoakam | ... | Blair | |
| Dennis Haysbert | ... | Graves | |
| Alex Warren | ... | State Trooper | |
| Mercedes Ruehl | ... | Jane | |
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Chloe Black | ... | Karen - Age 18 |
| Brian Cox | ... | Doug | |
| Eric Mabius | ... | Gene | |
| Larry Miller | ... | Paul | |
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Lois Gerace | ... | Lois |
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Erik Holland | ... | Coach |
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Danny 'Big Black' Rey | ... | Arthur (as Daniel 'Big Black' Rey) |
| Janeane Garofalo | ... | Ferrin | |
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Axel Ovregaard | ... | Joe La Moine |
A cold-blooded serial killer floats around the country and chooses his victims from people who complain about their lives and indicate a willingness to be killed. His murders are introduced with the killing of an asthmatic junkie. The killer settles into a seaside rooming house run by an unhappy married couple and waits for his next victims to unveil themselves. Dream cops plague his nights, while plotting his murders. Meanwhile, he also starts a relationship with a postal clerk. Written by John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
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Watching this movie, you will most probably start thinking about other titles. I'm my case they are Psycho, Arsenic and Old Lace, A Shadow of Doubt, A Beautiful Mind and The Night of the Hunter. I also had to think of Todd Solondz' Palindromes. The Minus Man is successful where Palindromes dismally fails; in creating a setting which is located between everyday reality and the dreamscape of personal imagination.
The main character comes out of nowhere and vanishes there again. In between horror invades the proverbial Smallville USA. Evil probably never had a gentler appearance. It is useless to explain what happens and why, as this is not a movie which wants to explain anything.
The story is seen from the perspective of a mass murderer. Something is terribly wrong with this meek, likable young man. He sometimes faints, has regular and recurring visions, suffers from a split personality - and likes to kill people. You are never sure if what he perceives is reality or figments of his imagination. Most people he meets act at times very strange and unnatural, even the way he sees objects is often very unsettling (the big, diamond shaped glass pane in the entrance door of his adoptive parents" is one of the scariest things for me in this movie).
What to me seemed unique in Minus Man is the way the disturbed man deals with the fact that something is wrong: He just seems to integrate everything into his everyday routine. Even the recurring dreams of Kafkaesque interrogations by a racially mixed team of some kind of investigators are faced with a cool, detached demeanour. In a strange, scary way the man seems to have found peace with himself and his condition. Others will have to pay with their lives.
The Minus Man boasts an ensemble cast that is simply awesome. For some reason the female parts made a particularly deep impression on me, especially Mercedes Ruehl as the adoptive mother" and Alex Warren as the supernatural state trooper. Janeane Garofalo is really cute and easily the most uplifting character of the movie. Watch her bungalow it seems to come right out of a children's book of fairy stories.