
The last thing on his mind is murder.
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Cast
- Billy Bob Thornton
- Frances McDormand
- Michael Badalucco
- James Gandolfini
- Katherine Borowitz
- Jon Polito
- Scarlett Johansson
- Richard Jenkins
- Tony Shalhoub
- Christopher Kriesa
- Brian Haley
- Jack McGee
- Gregg Binkley
- Alan Fudge
- Lilyan Chauvin
- Adam Alexi-Malle
- Ted Rooney
- Abraham Benrubi
- Christian Ferratti
- Rhoda Gemignani
- E.J. Callahan
- Brooke Smith
- Ron Ross
- Hallie Singleton
- Jon Donnelly
- Dan Martin
- Nicholas Lanier
- Tom Dahlgren
- Booth Colman
- Stanley DeSantis
- Peter Siragusa
- Christopher McDonald
- Rick Scarry
- George Ives
- Devon Cole Borisoff
- Mary Bogue
- Don Donati
- Arthur Reeves
- Michelle Weber
- Randi Cee
- Robert Loftin
- Kenneth Hughes
- Gordon Hart
- Brenda Mae Hamilton
- Lloyd Gordon
- Leonard Crofoot
- Rita Bland
- Audrey K. Baranishyn
- Qyn Hughes
- Rachel McDonald
- Craig Berenson
- Joan Blair
- Greg Bronson
- Geoffrey Gould
- Paul G. Gray
- Phil Hawn
- Cherilyn Hayres
- John Michael Higgins
- Janis Jones
- Jennifer Jason Leigh
- Peter Schrum
- Max Thayer
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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.