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Genre
  
Action, Comedy, Crime

Budget
  
20 million USD

Country
  
United States

5.5/10
IMDb


Director
  
Initial DVD release
  
January 17, 2006

Duration
  

Language
  
English

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Release date
  
September 9, 2005 (2005-09-09)

Writer
  
Jim Piddock (screenplay), Margaret Oberman (screenplay), Stephen Carpenter (screenplay), Jim Piddock (story), Margaret Oberman (story)

Cast
  
(Derrick Vann), (Andy Fiddler), (Joey Kane), (Agent Peters), (Lt. Rita Carbone), (Booty)

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Tagline
  
One guy walks the walk. The other talks and talks.

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The Man is a 2005 American comedy crime film starring Eugene Levy, Samuel L. Jackson, and Miguel Ferrer.

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The Man is directed by Les Mayfield and produced by Rob Fried from a screenplay by Jim Piddock, Margaret Oberman and Stephen Carpenter, based on the story by Jim Piddock and Margaret Oberman. New Line Cinema released The Man in Canada (through Alliance Atlantis) and the United States on September 9, 2005.

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Filming took place in Toronto, Hamilton and Oakville, Ontario, Canada.

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Plot

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The story starts with Andy Fiddler (Eugene Levy) preparing a speech that he is going to give to a dental convention in Detroit. He works for a dental supply company, and lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Meanwhile, in Detroit, a federal armory (weapons room) of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has been robbed of assault rifles, handguns and ammunition. An ATF agent was killed and Internal Affairs agent Peters (Miguel Ferrer) suspects the dead agent and his partner Agent Derrick Vann (Samuel L. Jackson) were in on the robbery.

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After a visit to his informant Booty (Anthony Mackie) (who is later gunned down), Vann, attempting to clear his name, sets up a buy. He is to go to a diner and be reading a copy of the newspaper USA Today to be recognized. Unfortunately, Andy is also in the diner, and he has a copy of USA Today. He is mistaken for Vann. A menacing Englishman called Joey (Luke Goss) sits next to Andy and hands him a paper bag with "his taste" in it then leaves. The bag contains a cell phone and a gun, which Andy pulls out. The waitress of the diner thinks than Andy is there to rob the place and panics. An arriving Vann arrests Andy, before realizing that the gun traffickers mistook Andy for Vann himself. The received cell phone rings and Vann answers the call. The caller is Joey, who wants "Turk" (the pseudonym that Vann used when setting up the buy) to drop $20,000 dollars in a certain trash can. Vann reveals that he has the money, but now needs Andy to deliver it.

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The initial attempt to deliver the money to the gun traffickers fails due to the interference of a bystander. Vann gets another cell phone call from Joey, asking him what happened. He tells Joey that there were complications, and Joey agrees to arrange another attempt at delivery. Meanwhile, Andy tries to escape and Vann shoots after him, grazing him with a gunshot to the rear. Andy uses the cell phone to call the local police for help, resulting in the capture of both of them by arriving squad cars. The police releases Vann after learning that he is an ATF agent, but they discover there is an outstanding warrant for Andy. He reportedly only purchased a stolen rug without knowing of its origins, but he is still suspected of criminal activity.

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Vann arranges the release of Andy, to use him in his case against the gun traffickers. Vann tries to contact gun dealer Manny Cortez for help with the case, but finds Manny murdered in his own house. Andy attempts to escape again and fails. Vann then receives a phone call from his ex-wife Dara (Rachael Crawford), who reminds him about the upcoming dance recital of their daughter Kate (Tomorrow Baldwin Montgomery). He then receives another phone call from Joey, who now asks for 500,000 dollars for the whole batch of weapons. Vann has Andy pose as a powerful trafficker for a meeting with Joey in a restaurant. Andy improvises by returning the cell phone to Joey and telling him that their next meeting will be on his terms. Andy plans to use the next meeting to set up a trap for Joey. Andy then convinces Vann that he should attend his daughter's recital, and both men attend it.

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Andy and Vann eventually arrange a meeting with Joey, but (against Andy's original plan) they have failed to arrange backup from any law enforcement agency. Joey has never met Vann before and asks who he is. Andy claims that Vann is someone who will do anything they tell him. Vann admits this, and claims that he is betraying the service in pursuit of monetary gain. Joey is suitably convinced and agrees to work with him. Following the meeting, Andy and Vann part ways.

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Andy stays in Detroit as planned and delivers his speech. He is then captured by agent Peters, who wants to use him against Vann. Peters claims that Vann is corrupt, that he is actually trying to buy the guns for himself, and that Vann himself murdered Booty, Manny Cortez and Vann's own partner. Peters wants Andy to wear a wire and get a confession out of Vann. Meanwhile, back at ATF offices, Vann is suspended, and his boss (Susie Essman) tells him that Andy was setting him up. Andy, now wired, enters Vann's office and says they need to talk. The two men drive to the exchange point to deliver the money. Vann suspects that Andy is wired and asks him about it. Andy admits it.

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Vann and Andy enter the barn where the exchange is going to take place. This time Joey is skeptical of their motives and pulls a gun on Vann. The law enforcement agents hear everything through the wire, and soon arrive to arrest Joey. Andy manages to disarm Joey, though Vann still receives a bullet wound in the buttocks. Vann delivers Andy to the airport for his flight back to Milwaukee and the two men say goodbye. Vann accidentally sets off the metal detectors in the airport and blames it on Andy. The story ends with a protesting Andy being led away by airport security for a body cavity search.

Cast

  • Samuel L. Jackson as Agent Derrick Vann
  • Eugene Levy as Andy Fidler
  • Luke Goss as Joey Trent/Kane
  • Miguel Ferrer as Agent Peters
  • Susie Essman as Lt. Rita Carbone
  • Anthony Mackie as Booty
  • Gigi Rice as Susan
  • Rachael Crawford as Dara Vann
  • Philip Akin as Second I.A. Agent
  • Lindsay Ames as Waitress
  • Randy Butcher as Precinct Cop
  • Michael Cameron as IA driver
  • Kevin Rushton as Thug
  • Joe Sacco as Rookie Cop
  • Horatio Sanz as Santos
  • Nestor Serrano as Manuel "Manny" Cortez
  • Andrew Stelmack as Conventioneer
  • Beatriz Yuste as Nun
  • Box office

    In its opening weekend, The Man earned $4,065,014 in 2,040 theaters. Altogether, the film was a box office bomb, only earning $8,330,720 in the United States and Canada and $12,382,362 worldwide. The DVD was released on January 10, 2006. It has been discontinued.

    Reception

    The Man has received negative reviews from critics, many of whom share the opinion that the plot made no sense and its jokes were rehashed. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes currently reports that the film holds a score of 11% based on 100 reviews. Meanwhile, on Metacritic, the film received a metascore of 33 out of 100 based on 27 reviews, carrying an indication of "generally unfavorable reviews", while the user score from the website's audience carries a 5.9 out of 10, meaning "mixed or average reviews". The film received a Razzie nomination for Worst Supporting Actor (Eugene Levy).

    References

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