Donald Sutherland
The Professor
Search results
May 16, 2003 · A retired literature teacher and a bank robber meet by chance and form a friendship in a French provincial town. Roger Ebert praises the film's elegance, humor and poetry, and its portrayal of male bonding.
May 9, 2003 · Milan (Johnny Hallyday) is a beleaguered old thief who rolls into a small French town with the aim of robbing its bank. However, a chance meeting with a local professor, Monsieur Manesquier (Jean...
- (169)
- Patrice Leconte
- R
- Jean Rochefort
In a brief surrealistic coda, each dead man returns to life and their improbable friendship resumes. Cast. Johnny Hallyday as Milan, a thief; Jean Rochefort as Manesquier, a retired teacher; Jean-François Stévenin as Luigi, a thief; Charlie Nelson as Max; Pascal Parmentier as Sadko; Isabelle Petit-Jacques as Viviane, Manesquier's mistress
Mar 22, 2012 · The English-language remake of Patrice Leconte's award-winning French film of the same name, Man on the Train stars Donald Sutherland (Ordinary People, Pride...
- 2 min
- 32.3K
- Cineverse
Oct 2, 2002 · With Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday, Jean-François Stévenin, Charlie Nelson. A man steps off a train into a French village awaiting the day when he will rob the town bank. He meets a retired poetry teacher striking up a strange friendship and explore the road not taken, each wanting to live the other's life.
- (7.5K)
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Patrice Leconte
- 2002-10-02
People also ask
Where can I watch the man on the train?
What happens at the end of Man on the train?
Does the man on the train have a flaw?
A criminal and a retired professor form an unlikely friendship in a small town. The film explores their contrasting lifestyles, choices, and regrets through humor and compassion.
The Man On The Train uses the genre of the crime film to explore the existential crisis of masculinity, and the conclusion it reaches is a similarly bleak affirmation of the codes of...
