The Man Who Wasn

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Actors: Richard Jenkins , James Gandolfini , Billy Bob Thornton , Jon Polito , Scarlett Johansson , Jack McGee , Frances McDormand , Tony Shalhoub , Alan Fudge , Christopher Kriesa , Michael Badalucco , Brian Haley , Lilyan Chauvin , Gregg Binkley , Katherine Borowitz

Director: Joel Coen

IMDB Rate: 7.7 out of 10 (38768 votes)

Plot Summary:1949, Santa Rosa, California. A laconic, chain-smoking barber with fallen arches tells a story of a man trying to escape a humdrum life. Its a tale of suspected adultery, blackmail, foul play, death, Sacramento city slickers, racial slurs, invented war heroics, shaved legs, a gamine piano player, aliens, and Heisenbergs uncertainty principle. Ed Crane cuts hair in his in-laws shop his wife drinks and may be having an affair with her boss, Big Dave, who has 10,000 to invest in a second department store. Ed gets wind of a chance to make money in dry cleaning. Blackmail and investment are his opportunity to be more than a man no one notices. Settle in the chair and listen.