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DVD : The Man Who Wasn't ThereIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, James Gandolfini, Katherine Borowitz directed by: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen  List Price: $14.98 Amazon.com's Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.99 (27%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Universal EAN: 9780783275772 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0783275773 Label: Universal Studios Manufacturer: Universal Studios Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Universal Studios Region Code: 1 Release Date: October 01, 2002 Running Time: 116 minutes Studio: Universal Studios Theatrical Release Date: April 16, 2002 Sales Rank: 8186 MPN: MCAD22496D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: A dissatisfied barber in the 1940s decides to blackmail his wifes lover in order to get startup capital for a new dry cleaning business. The scheme begins to unravel and in the end everyone gets whats coming to them. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 01/06/2004 Starring: Billy Bob Thornton Brian Haley Run time: 116 minutes Rating: R Director: Joel Coen Amazon.com: For all of its late-1940s cold war paranoia, pulp fiction dialogue, and frenzied greed, Joel and Ethan Coen's The Man Who Wasn't There is their most cool and collected film since Blood Simple. An unassuming barber with a scheming wife (Frances McDormand) and a serious smoking habit, Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton) is an onlooker to his own life, a ghostly presence set against a silver-toned film noir backdrop. Only when he decides to alter his fate by blackmailing his wife's lover (James Gandolfini) in order to invest with a traveling salesman (Jon Polito) touting the wave of the future--dry cleaning--do we begin to hear the full extent of Ed's understated, existential lament. As his lawyer (Tony Shalhoub) says in Ed's defense at his eventual trial for murder, "He is modern man." Thornton's deadpan eloquence and cinematographer Roger Deakins's precision lighting offer the perfect counterbalance to the requisite one-liners, plot twists, and false endings that have come to characterize recent Coen brothers films. Almost in spite of the obsessive cultural references (flying saucers, Nabokov's Lolita, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle), Ed Crane steps neatly from the fray as one of cinema's most memorably disenchanted characters. --Fionn Meade Average Rating:
 Rating:  - It definitely felt like no one was there...I was really excited about this movie. First of all it's a Coen film. Second of all James Gandolfini is in the film; not to mention Scarlett Johansson and Frances McDormand. Sure, Billy Bob Thornton is the star, and I like him (don't love him) but the other four selling points were much stronger. On top of all that it is a film noir, and lately I've been on a real film noir kick. Sure, I've seen quite a few that have been less than impressive (`Devil in a Blue Dress') but there have been enough ... Read More Rating:  - Another Coen masterpieceI loved this film. Billy Bob showed control, almost autistic, but fully aware all the time. Frances McDormand and James Gandolfini added to the outrageous subtle humor, all with a perfect "noir" attitude. Scarlett Johannson adds a bit of interest to the proceedings. The Coens never fail to provide an interesting story, and this is as good as it gets. The black 'n white photography is brilliant. I like it a lot. Very amusing... Rating: - The Coen Brothers' finest work.The Man Who Wasn't There takes patience, a slow, dry movie that deftly and almost subtly takes the Coens' two styles (broad comedy and twisty, cause-and-effect crime drama) and blends them into a single piece of filmmaking. Where else are you going to get a pitch-perfect film noir, goofy alien subplots, such darkly ironic twists amongst discussion of dry cleaning and hairstyles? Billy Bob Thornton inhabits the character of Ed Crane in a way that weighs down on his shoulders, dampens his ... Read More Rating: - Coen Brothers: Film # 9This is a special Coen Brother's film. It is special because it is more for people who are fans of the Coen Brother's or film noir. While I believe others will surely like this film if they simply put it in their players, I also believe that they will not even give it a try because it is in Black and White. Well, I say, try it. Not surprising, we have a great film here. It is great because it is in black and white as a matter a fact. Like older films, the B&W brings forth a whole new perspective into ... Read More Rating:  - It drags like a wet cigar, chomped half to death in the corner of my mouthCoen Brother's hit and miss film-making style did it again with this miss. I am a HUGE fan of their work, and an enormous fan of noir. But this was just too dragged out. The cast was great, the characters were great, the film was beautiful, but it was just boring. The narrative was ridiculously cliche, even for the neo-noir genre. It really broke my heart. I had hoped for sooooooooo much more. Go read some Fante, Faust, or rent some good ol' Mike Hammer DVDs. Browse for similar items by category:
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