The Man Who Wasn’t There
The Coen brothers peer into the existential abyss of the atomic age in this coolly riveting, drolly profound noir thriller. In a performance of masterfully calibrated understatement, Billy Bob Thornton stars as a disaffected barber in 1940s California whose suspicion that his wife (Frances McDormand) is cheating on him leads him down a crooked path of blackmail and murder. Fusing the expressionistic black and white and hard-boiled poetry of classic noir with their own idiosyncratic feeling for sinister, surreal Americana, Joel and Ethan Coen craft an arresting vision of the cruelty of fate and the mystery of our place in the cosmos.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director of photography Roger Deakins, with 5.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary featuring filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen and actor Billy Bob Thornton
- New conversation between the Coens and author Megan Abbott
- Archival interview with Deakins
- Short making-of documentary and deleted scenes
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by author Laura Lippman
New cover by Marc Aspinall
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 4K UHD + BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director of photography Roger Deakins, with 5.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
- Audio commentary featuring filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen and actor Billy Bob Thornton
- New conversation between the Coens and author Megan Abbott
- Archival interview with Deakins
- Short making-of documentary and deleted scenes
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by author Laura Lippman
New cover by Marc Aspinall
Cast
- Billy Bob Thornton
- Ed
- Frances McDormand
- Doris
- Ana-Sofia Mastroianna
- Carcanogues
- Michael Badalucco
- Frank
- Katherine Borowitz
- Ann Nirdlinger
- Richard Jenkins
- Walter Abundas
- Scarlett Johansson
- Birdy Abundas
- Jon Polito
- Creighton Tolliver
- Tony Shalhoub
- Freddy Riedenschneider
- James Gandolfini
- Big Dave
- Christopher Kriesa
- Persky
- Brian Haley
- Krebs
- Jack McGee
- Burns
Credits
- Director
- Joel Coen
- Written by
- Joel Coen
- Written by
- Ethan Coen
- Produced by
- Ethan Coen
- Executive producer
- Tim Bevan
- Executive producer
- Eric Fellner
- Coproducer
- John Cameron
- Director of photography
- Roger Deakins
- Production designer
- Dennis Gassner
- Costume designer
- Mary Zophres
- Original score
- Carter Burwell
- Film editor
- Roderick Jaynes
- Film editor
- Tricia Cooke
- Supervising sound editor
- Skip Lievsay
- Casting by
- Ellen Chenoweth
- Unit production manager
- John Cameron
- First assistant director
- Betsy Macgruder
- Second assistant director
- Jonathan McGarry
- Associate film editor
- David Diliberto
- Associate producer
- Robert Graf
- Visual effects supervisor
- Janek Sirrs
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A scene from The Man Who Wasn’t There
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