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PRODUCTION TEAM
Director :
Hampton Fancher
Script :
Hampton Fancher. D'apr�s le roman de/Based on the novel by: Lew McCreary
Photography :
Bobby Bukowski
Editor :
Todd Ramsay
Cast :
Owen Wilson, Brian Cox, Mercedes Ruehl, Janeane Garofalo, Dwight Yoakam, Dennis Haysberg, Sheryl Crow, Eric Mabius, Larry Miller
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THE MINUS MAN
Quiet, introverted Vann Siegert is driving across the country when he comes across Caspar, an asthmatic junkie who's dying to be put out of her misery. He promptly obliges and his peculiar career is launched. Vann arrives in a seaside town in the Pacific Northwest and rents a spare room at the home of unhappily married Doug and Jane. Doug helps Vann get a job at the local post office where he soon attracts the romantic attentions of fellow worker Ferrin. And Ferrin isn't the only one to come on to him. Despite his reticence, Vann is imbued with a remarkable ability to attract people who are disturbed or in trouble. It isn't Vann who goes out looking for victims; it is they who come to him. The list includes a reluctant high school football hero, a disgruntled restaurant patron and who knows how many more. Blackouts and increasingly vivid daydreams of being interrogated by the police indicate that perhaps Vann's days may be numbered, but fate has always played an active role in his unconventional career.
Hampton Fancher
Hampton Fancher began his career as an actor in such classic television series as Gunsmoke, The Fugitive and Maverick. Later, he launched a parallel career as a screenwriter, authoring, among other films, Carl Schenkel's THE MIGHTY QUINN starring Denzel Washington and Ridley Scott's science fiction cult classic BLADE RUNNER (1982; he was also its executive producer). THE MINUS MAN marks his directorial debut.
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