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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 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.
NEW. 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 barber dissatisfied ...
Nov 2, 2001 · 5 min read. Billy Bob Thornton and Frances McDormand in "The Man Who Wasn't There." The Coen Brothers’ ”The Man Who Wasn’t There” is shot in black-and-white so elegantly, it reminds us of a 1940s station wagon — chrome, wood, leather and steel all burnished to a contented glow.
A laconic, chain-smoking barber with fallen arches tells a story of a man trying to escape a humdrum life. It's 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 Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
In the vein of a classic James M. Cain antihero, Billy Bob Thornton stars as Ed Crane, an unhappy barber living in 1940s California who, when he discovers that his wife (Frances McDormand) has been unfaithful, concocts a blackmailing scheme to teach her a lesson.
Original title: The Man Who Wasn't There. Synopsis: In the summer of 1949, Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton), the local barber in a small northern California town, is dissatisfied with his life.
