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The Man (2005)

★ 5.8 · 614 ratings on TMDB

One guy walks the walk. The other talks and talks.

The Man poster★ 5.8

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's former partner.

DirectorLes Mayfield
CastAnthony Mackie, Christopher Murray, Eugene Levy, Gigi Rice, Luke Goss, Miguel Ferrer
GenresAction, Comedy, Crime
The emergence reading

The Man keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

The Avengers (2012)E8/E11Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)E8/E11Iron Man 2 (2010)E8/E11Pulp Fiction (1994)E8/E11The Truman Show (1998)E8/E11Star Wars (1977)E8/E11

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

Dragnet (1987)E9/E10 · Action, ComedyBlacKkKlansman (2018)E9/E10 · Comedy, CrimeThe Interview (2014)E9/E12 · Action, ComedyWho Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)E9/E10 · Comedy, CrimeIron Sky (2012)E12/E14 · Action, ComedySahara (2005)E14 · Action, Comedy

Same people

Shared director or cast.

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