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  1. The Man Who Wasn't There. A dark tale of infidelity and murder, crime and punishment. Set in a small northern California town of the late 40s, the film portrays Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton), a ...

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  2. Box office. $18.9 million [2] The Man Who Wasn't There is a 2001 neo-noir crime film written, directed, produced and co-edited 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. The film is set in 1949 and tells the ...

  3. Synopsis. A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity and a mysterious opportunity presents him with a chance to change it.

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  4. Nov 2, 2001 · Purchase The Man Who Wasn't There on digital and stream instantly or download offline. The Coen Brothers are back with a dark and twisted film noir unlike anything you've ever seen. Set in a small 1949 California town, this is the story of a seemingly simple barber, who turns to blackmail and revenge to escape his achingly dull life. But in the tradition of classic noir, nothing goes as ...

    • Joel Coen
    • Billy Bob Thornton
  5. Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 22, 2024. Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review. The Coens often exaggerate a genre to comic effect, and for The Man Who Wasn't There, the mechanics of film noir ...

  6. 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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  8. 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. Part of the code of the films noir was that evil could not triumph.

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