Director: Joel Coen

Writers: Joel Coen; Ethan Coen

Original Score: Carter Burwell

Producer: Ethan Coen

Keywords: Drama, Blackmail

A barber's plans to finance a business operation through blackmail backfire in disastrous fashion.

ABSTRACT
Ed Crane is an everyman barber in 1940s northern California suspecting that alcoholic wife Doris might be having an affair with intimidating boss Big Dave. Determined to make a name for himself and a fortune to boot when a stranger rolls into town promising untold riches from a dry-cleaning racket, Ed hatches a scheme to blackmail Big Dave out of $10,000 to be used as seed money, a plot backfiring in a dark comedy of errors only the Coen Brothers could provide.

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Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Michael Badalucco	Actor	20-Dec-1954		Jimmy Berluti on The Practice
Abraham Benrubi	Actor	4-Oct-1969		Jerry Markovic on ER
Alan Fudge	Actor	27-Feb-1934	10-Oct-2011	C. W. Crawford on The Man from Atlantis
James Gandolfini	Actor	18-Sep-1961	19-Jun-2013	Tony Soprano wants his money
Richard Jenkins	Actor	2-Dec-1953		Six Feet Under
Scarlett Johansson	Actor	22-Nov-1984		Ghost World, Lost in Translation
Christopher McDonald	Actor	15-Feb-1955		Happy Gilmore
Frances McDormand	Actor	23-Jun-1957		Fargo and Wonder Boys
Jack McGee	Actor	2-Feb-1949		Chief Jerry Reilly on Rescue Me
Jon Polito	Actor	29-Dec-1950	1-Sep-2016	Johnny Caspar in Miller's Crossing
Tony Shalhoub	Actor	9-Oct-1953		Monk
Brooke Smith	Actor	22-May-1967		Grey's Anatomy
Billy Bob Thornton	Actor	4-Aug-1955		Sling Blade

CAST

Billy Bob Thornton	...   Ed
Frances McDormand	...   Doris
Adam Alexi-Malle	...   Carcanogues
Michael Badalucco	...   Frank
Katherine Borowitz	...   Ann Nirdlinger
Richard Jenkins	...   Walter Abundas
Scarlett Johansson	...   Birdy Abundas
Jon Polito	...   Creighton Tolliver
Tony Shalhoub	...   Freddy Riedenschneider
and
James Gandolfini	...   Big Dave
Christopher Kriesa	...   Persky
Brian Haley	...   Krebs
Jack McGee	...   Burns
Gregg Binkley	...   The New Man
Alan Fudge	...   Diedrickson
Lilyan Chauvin	...   Medium
Ted Rooney	...   Bingo Caller
Abraham Benrubi	...   Young Man
Christian Ferratti	...   Child
Rhoda Gemignani	...   Costanza
E. J. Callahan	...   Customer
Brooke Smith	...   Sobbing Prisoner
Ron Ross	...   Banker
Hallie Singleton	...   Waitress
Jon Donnelly	...   Gatto Eater
Dan Martin	...   Bailiff
Nicholas Lanier	...   Tony
Tom Dahlgren	...   Judge #1
Booth Colman	...   Judge #2
Stanley DeSantis	...   New Man's Customer
Peter Siragusa	...   Bartender
Christopher McDonald	...   Macadam Salesman
John Michael Higgins	...   Doctor
Rick Scarry	...   District Attorney
George Ives	...   Lloyd Garroway
Devin Cole Borisoff	...   Swimming Boy
Mary Bogue	...   Prisoner Visitor
Don Donati	...   Pie Contest Timer
Arthur Reeves	...   Flophouse Clerk
Dancers
Michelle Rae Weber	...   Dancer
Randi Pareira	...   Dancer
Robert Loftin	...   Dancer
Kenneth Hughes	...   Dancer
Gordon Hart	...   Dancer
Brenda Mae Hamilton	...   Dancer
Lloyd Gordon	...   Dancer
Leonard Crofoot	...   Dancer
Rita Bland	...   Dancer
Audrey Baranishyn	...   Dancer
Qyn Hughes	...   Dancer
Rachel McDonald	...   Dancer

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