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Nov 16, 2001 · The Man Who Wasn't There: Directed by Joel Coen. With Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, James Gandolfini. 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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- Crime, Drama
- Joel Coen
- 2001-11-16
The Man Who Wasn't There is a 2001 neo-noir crime film written, directed, and produced by Joel and Ethan Coen. It stars Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, Richard Jenkins, Scarlett Johansson, Jon Polito, Tony Shalhoub, and James Gandolfini.
Oct 31, 2001 · Katherine Borowitz. Ann Nirdlinger. Watchlist. TRAILER. Watchlist. Goliath. Advertise With Us. A dark tale of infidelity and murder, crime and punishment. Set in a small northern California town of...
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- Joel Coen
- R
- Billy Bob Thornton
Nov 2, 2001 · But ''The Man Who Wasn't There'' is so assured and perceptive in its style, so loving, so intensely right, that if you can receive on that frequency, the film is like a voluptuous feast. Yes, it might easily have been shorter. But then it would not have been this film, or necessarily a better one.
With The Man Who Wasn't There, they return to the inspiration for their first film, Blood Simple, the films noir of the 1930s and 1940s. With this film they go further than they have before in submersing themselves into the genre, with little of their usual ironic distance.
- USA Films
- Joel Coen
Nov 2, 2001 · By Smriti Mundhra. Updated: Oct 23, 2020 7:25 pm. Posted: Nov 2, 2001 8:00 am. Billy Bob Thornton and Jon Polito. in The Man Who Wasn't There "> Futile, frustrating, and...
The Man Who Wasn't There emulates the visual style and content of film noir, a genre produced primarily in the 1940s and 1950s. The filmmakers depicted the setting as Santa Rosa, CA because it evoked the 1943 Alfred Hitchcock film Shadow of a Doubt , which was set and filmed in Santa Rosa (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1941-50 ).
