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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 1, 2002
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand & James Gandolfini | |
Performer: | Michael Badalucco, Katherine Borowitz, Jon Polito, Scarlett Johansson, Richard Jenkins, Tony Shalhoub, Adam Alexi-Malle & Christopher McDonald | |
Directed by | Joel Coen | |
Edited by | Tricia Cooke | |
Screenwriting by | Joel Coen & Ethan Coen | |
Composition by | Carter Burwell | |
Produced by | Ethan Coen | |
Director of Photography: | Roger Deakins | |
Executive Production by | Tim Bevan & Eric Fellner |
Major Awards:
Cannes 2001 -
Best Director: Joel Coen
Entertainment Reviews:
Joel and Ethan Coen stay true to their bent for dense heroes and neonoir, and to their unshakable conviction that life usually turns out to be splendidly horrific.
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Chicago Reader
Ed's problem isn't so much that he isn't there but that, when you finally catch a glimpse of him, there's no way to be sure exactly what has caught your gaze.
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Not Coming to a Theater Near You
...Succulently retro, vintage-Hollywood-goes-bizarro film noir...
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 3/5 --
Some mature themes--best for older teens.
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Common Sense Media
Much less acidic than Fargo, not as graceful as The Big Lebowsky, and barely enigmatic as Barton Fink, The Man Who Wasn't There is, isn't far from being the best film of the [Coen Brothers]. [Full review in Spanish]
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Letras Libres
Rating: A --
Despite the movie's humor and sense of irony, it takes on a sense of somberness as it progresses.
Houston Chronicle
Rating: B --
This stylized black and white noir by the Joel and Ethan Coen is meticulously mounted but too emotionally detached and only sporadically engaging.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Product Description:
The Coen brothers' THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE is a brilliantly photographed black-and-white absurdist noir set in Santa Rosa, California, in 1949. Ed Crane (the outstanding Billy Bob Thornton) is a slow-moving, barely talking barber who doesn't seem to want much out of life. He has virtually no relationship with his wife, Doris (Frances McDormand), who has more fun with her boss, Big Dave (James Gandolfini). But when a strange character (Jon Polito) lets it be known that he's looking for a silent partner to finance his dream business (something he calls dry cleaning), Ed sees a possible way out of his doldrums. Just like any good James M. Cain novel (which the Coens cited as a major influence on the story), blackmail, deceit, violence, murder, and double crossing ensue, all with the magic Coen twists and turns.
THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE looks simply magnificent; the cinematography, the outfits, and the set designs perfectly capture this intriguing post-WWII paranoid world embodied by misfits, cheats, simpletons, con men, and other ne'er-do-wells. Thornton, who also supplies the wonderfully droll narration, gives a bravura performance as Ed, the everyman who has never strayed from the straight and narrow--until now. Always with a Chesterfield in his mouth, he wanders from scene to scene almost as if he's a spectator--even though he's at the center of everything that goes on. The supporting cast, as usual in a Coen brothers film, is outstanding, including McDormand, Gandolfini, Polito, Tony Shalhoub, Richard Jenkins, and Scarlett Johansson as a young potential piano prodigy.
THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE looks simply magnificent; the cinematography, the outfits, and the set designs perfectly capture this intriguing post-WWII paranoid world embodied by misfits, cheats, simpletons, con men, and other ne'er-do-wells. Thornton, who also supplies the wonderfully droll narration, gives a bravura performance as Ed, the everyman who has never strayed from the straight and narrow--until now. Always with a Chesterfield in his mouth, he wanders from scene to scene almost as if he's a spectator--even though he's at the center of everything that goes on. The supporting cast, as usual in a Coen brothers film, is outstanding, including McDormand, Gandolfini, Polito, Tony Shalhoub, Richard Jenkins, and Scarlett Johansson as a young potential piano prodigy.
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Romance
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Film Noir
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California
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1940s
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