The Man (2005)

Director:

Les Mayfield

Writers (WGA):

Jim Piddock (screenplay) &
Margaret Oberman (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

9 September 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Comedy | Crime

Tagline:

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

Plot:

Special Agent Derrick Vann is a man out to get the man who killed his partner but a case of mistaken identity leads him to Andy Fidler, a salesman with too many questions and a knack of getting in Vanns way.

Plot Keywords:

Farting Scene | Mistaken Identity | ATF Agent | Box Office Flop | Title Spoken By Character

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Samuel L. Jackson	...	Derrick Vann
Eugene Levy	...	Andy Fiddler
Luke Goss	...	Joey / Kane
Miguel Ferrer	...	Agent Peters
Susie Essman	...	Lt. Rita Carbone
Anthony Mackie	...	Booty
Gigi Rice	...	Susan
Rachael Crawford	...	Dara Vann
Philip Akin	...	Second I.A. Agent
Christopher Murray	...	Homeless Man
Joel S. Keller	...	Laptop Guy (as Joel Keller)
John Hemphill	...	Ted
Kathryn Greenwood	...	Flight Attendant
Carrie Cain-Sparks	...	Big Kim (as Carrie Cain Sparks)
George Ghali	...	Cab Driver

Also Known As:

Cool & Fool - Mein Partner mit der großen Schnauze (Germany) (DVD title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for language, rude dialogue and some violence.

Runtime:

83 min

Country:

Germany | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS | Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

Netherlands:MG6 | Brazil:14 | Iceland:14 | Ireland:12A | Mexico:B | UK:12A | Canada:14A (Ontario/British Columbia/Alberta) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Iceland:12 (video rating) | Singapore:NC-16 | Australia:M | Argentina:Atp | Finland:K-11 | USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Company:

New Line Cinema

Trivia:

A working title for this film was "El Maninator".

Goofs:

Continuity: When Vann pulls out in front of Andy who has stolen his car, Andy puts the car into a spin. The shots then alternate between the interior of the car where we can clearly see the windows are either down or clear to an exterior shot where the windows of the car are tinted and closed.

Quotes:

Special Agent Derrick Vann: Which one of you spice girls blew my partner away?
Joey: That would be me.
Special Agent Derrick Vann: Well, I guess that makes you scary spice.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: The Worst of 2005" (2006)

Soundtrack:

Just Do It

The Man has it's moments, but overall fails to deliver

I don't know why, but something just made me wanna pick up the movie The Man. Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy, why not? I have never seen Samuel in a comedy, so I thought this would be interesting and it seemed like a movie with a guaranteed laugh. While I did have moments where I laughed, like the scene where Andy tells the bad guys who Derrick is, that he's his, well, you'll have to see, I don't know if I can write it on IMDb. The story was good and the actors were fine, I'm not sure why, but the movie just didn't work or click like I thought it would.

Andy is a dentist who is about to go make huge speeches around the country, coincidentally he is in the place of where a cop, Derrick, is going under cover to buy weapons from a gang. Andy is mistaken for Derrick and now has become part of the case pretending that he's interested in this stuff. But it may not happen since he's driving Derrick insane with his pure and wholesome image.

The Man has a few good laughs that I'm sure you'll get, but I do warn you that the movie doesn't provide a full out comedy that you'll die laughing from. Eugene held his own, but Samuel in my opinion at least really cannot hold a comedy very well. He was meant to play like a serious but lovable tough guy cop, but it didn't work. So I'll leave this one up to you, if you wanna check it out, go ahead, because it's one of those films you'll have to see for yourself.

5/10