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Released
2005 · FILM

The Man

A hard‑nosed federal agent and an unsuspecting dental‑supply salesman must race through Detroit’s underworld to clear a deadly case of mistaken identity and bring their partner’s killer to justice.

“One guy walks the walk. The other talks and talks. Only one of them can be…”

Directed by
Les Mayfield
Written by
Jim Piddock, Margaret Oberman
Runtime
83 min
ActionComedyCrime
Streaming on
  • HBO Max

Synopsis

A case of mistaken identity forces a Federal agent and a dental supply salesman to team up as they speed through the streets of Detroit to pull off a sting operation and solve the murder of the agent.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 25

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Peter FandettiShot by Adam KaneScored by John MurphyDesigned by Carol Spier

Box Office

2005 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.4× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$13.5M

Budget$33.0M
Worldwide gross$13.5M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $5.1M

Peak 2,040 theaters

Also known as

  • Cool & Fool - Mein Partner mit der großen Schnauzede
  • Detective Por Errores
  • Le Bossfr
  • The Man - La talpait

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