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Release Date: September 9th, 2005

Running Time: 1 hr. 23 min.

U.S. Box Office: $8,326,035

Rating: PG-13 for language, rude dialogue and some violence.

Director: Les Mayfield

Starring: Eugene Levy, Samuel L. Jackson, Luke Goss, Miguel Ferrer, Susie Essman

Critics Reviews: 5 out of 10

Reelviews Hollywood has a long albeit checkered history of mismatched buddy cop films. I don't know when the trend started, but it was elevated in popularity by the partnership of Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte in 48 Hours. 23 years later, director Les Mayfield and his trio of screenwriters have taken a page out of the Twins book and forced two of the most unlikely actors together for a cops-and-robbers outing. James Berardinelli

Chicago-Sun Times "The Man" is another one of those movies, like "Lethal Weapon 2," where the outsider finds himself in the dangerous world of cops and robbers. The cop this time is Derrick Vann, a hard-boiled Detroit ATF agent played by Samuel L. Jackson, and the outsider is Andy Fiddler (Eugene Levy), a dental supplies salesman from Wisconsin. Roger Ebert

San Francisco Chronicle Levy squeezes a couple of laughs from the audience, but Jackson seems boxed in by the unpleasantness of the character he's playing. As if not wanting to give in to his surroundings, he plays Vann with no light and no warmth. Is this the agent forcing himself to endure the salesman, or is it Jackson steeling himself to endure a terrible script, with its almost pointless plot and flatulence jokes? Mick LaSall

Boston Globe "Do you know how powerful the human bite is?" asks the nerdy dental supplies salesman to the hard-boiled cop. Do you know some movies can bite even harder? ''The Man" is 83 minutes of flatulence-perfumed proof. Ty Burr

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The Man Trailer Offers the theatrical trailer for the action-comedy, The Man, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy.