The Man is a 2005 American buddy cop comedy film starring Samuel L. Jackson, Eugene Levy, and Miguel Ferrer.
The Man was directed by Les Mayfield and produced by Rob Fried, from a screenplay by Jim Piddock, Margaret Oberman and Stephen Carpenter, and based on a story by Piddock and Oberman. Filming took place in Toronto, Hamilton and Oakville, Ontario, Canada. New Line Cinema released The Man in the United States on September 9, 2005 to negative reviews from critics. The film was a box office bomb, grossing $10.3 million against a $20 million budget.
Contents
Plot
In Detroit, a federal armory of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is robbed of assault rifles, handguns and ammunition. An ATF agent was killed, and he and his partner Agent Derrick Vann are suspected to have been in on the robbery.
Vann, attempting to clear his name, sets up a buy. He is to go to a diner and reading a copy of the newspaper USA Today to be recognized. However, a man named Andy Fiddler is also there and has a copy of USA Today. Mistaking him for Vann, gun trafficker Joey "Kane" Trent hands Andy a paper bag with "his taste" in it and leaves. The bag contains a cell phone and a pistol, which Andy accidentally pulls out. A waitress thinks that Andy is there to rob the diner and panics. Vann arrests Andy, before realizing Joey's error. Joey calls the bag's phone and announces that he wants the man who he thinks is Vann to drop $20,000 in a certain trash can. Vann has the money, but now needs Andy to deliver it.
