The Man (2005)

Director
Les Mayfield

Main cast
Samuel L. Jackson; Eugene Levy; Luke Goss; Miguel Ferrer; Susie Essman

Genres
Action, Comedy, Crime

Description
Special Agent Derrick Vann is a man out to get the man who killed his partner but a case of mistaken identity leads him to Andy Fidler, a salesman with too many questions and a knack of getting in Vanns way


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