The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)

Release date: 2001-11-16
Country: UK|USA
Language: English|Italian|French
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (uncredited)
Production Co: Good Machine, Gramercy Pictures (I), Mike Zoss Productions
Genre: Crime, Drama
Rating: 7.5/10
Length: 1h 56min

Storyline

1949, Santa Rosa, California. 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. Ed Crane cuts hair in his in-law's 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.