
Summary
A laconic, chain-smoking barber blackmails his wife's boss and lover for money to invest in dry cleaning, but his plan goes terribly wrong.
1949, Santa Rosa, California. A laconic, chain-smoking barber with fallen arches tells a story of a man trying to escape a humdrum life. It's a tale of suspected adultery, blackmail, foul play, death, Sacramento city slickers, racial slurs, invented war heroics, shaved legs, a gamine piano player, aliens, and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Ed Crane cuts hair in his in-law's shop; his wife drinks and may be having an affair with her boss, Big Dave, who has $10,000 to invest in a second department store. Ed gets wind of a chance to make money in dry cleaning. Blackmail and investment are his opportunity to be more than a man no one notices. Settle in the chair and listen.
Details
Credits
Crew
- Carter Burwell - Composer
- Eric Fellner - Executive producer
- Ethan Coen - Producer, Writer
- Joel Coen - Director, Writer
- John Cameron - Co-producer
- Robert Graf - Associate producer
- Tim Bevan - Executive producer
Cast
- Abraham Benrubi - Party Man
- Adam Alexi-Malle - Jacques Carcanogues
- Alan Fudge - Dr. Diedrickson
- Arthur Reeves - Flophouse Clerk
- Audrey K. Baranishyn - Dancer (as Audrey Baranishyn)
- Billy Bob Thornton - Ed
- Booth Colman - Judge #2
- Brenda Mae Hamilton - Dancer
- Brian Haley - Officer Krebs
- Brooke Smith - Sobbing Prisoner
- Christian Ferratti - Child
- Christopher Kriesa - Officer Persky
- Christopher McDonald - Macadam Salesman
- Dan Martin - Bailiff
- Devon Cole Borisoff - Swimming Boy
- Don Donati - Pie Contest Timer
- E.J. Callahan - Customer
- Frances McDormand - Doris Crane
- George Ives - Lloyd Garroway
- Gordon Hart - Dancer
- Gregg Binkley - The New Man
- Hallie Singleton - Waitress
- Jack McGee - P.I. Burns
- James Gandolfini - Big Dave Brewster
- Jon Donnelly - Gatto Eater
- Jon Polito - Creighton Tolliver
- Katherine Borowitz - Ann Nirdlinger Brewster
- Kenneth Hughes - Dancer
- Leonard Crofoot - Dancer
- Lilyan Chauvin - Medium
- Lloyd Gordon - Dancer
- Mary Bogue - Prisoner Visitor
- Michael Badalucco - Frank
- Michelle Weber - Dancer (as Michelle Rae Weber)
- Nicholas Lanier - Tony
- Peter Siragusa - Bartender
- Qyn Hughes - Dancer
- Rachel McDonald - Dancer
- Randi Pareira - Dancer
- Rhoda Gemignani - Costanza
- Richard Jenkins - Walter Abundas
- Rick Scarry - District Attorney
- Rita Bland - Dancer
- Robert Loftin - Dancer
- Ron Ross - Banker
- Scarlett Johansson - Birdy Abundas
- Stanley DeSantis - New Man's Customer (as Stanley Desantis)
- Ted Rooney - Bingo Caller
- Tom Dahlgren - Judge #1
- Tony Shalhoub - Freddy Riedenschneider












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