The Man

The Man is a 2005 American buddy cop comedy film starring Eugene Levy, Samuel L. Jackson, and Miguel Ferrer. The Man was directed by Les Mayfield and produced by Rob Fried, from a screenplay by Jim Piddock, Margaret Oberman and Stephen Carpenter, and based on a story by Piddock and Oberman. Filming took place in Toronto, Hamilton and Oakville, Ontario, Canada. New Line Cinema released The Man in Canada (through Alliance Atlantis) and the United States on September 9, 2005. Plot Andy Fiddler is preparing a speech for a dental convention in Detroit. Fiddler works for a dental supply company, and lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Meanwhile, in Detroit, a federal armory of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has been robbed of assault rifles, handguns and ammunition. An ATF agent was killed and Internal Affairs Agent Peters suspects the dead agent and his partner Agent Derrick Vann were in on the robbery. Vann, attempting to clear his name by setting up a buy, pays a visit to his informant Booty. Booty tells Vann to go to a diner, sit at counter seat, and have a copy of the newspaper USA Today so that the gun traffickers can recognize him as their next buyer. Unfortunately before Vann can start on the plan, Andy is already in the diner, sitting at the counter and he has a copy of USA Today. He is thus mistaken as a gun buyer by a menacing Englishman named Joey, who sits next to Andy and hands him a paper bag with "his taste" in it then leaves. The bag contains a cell phone and a Walther P99 pistol, which Andy accidentally pulls out. The waitress of the diner thinks that Andy is there to rob the place and panics. An arriving Vann arrests Andy, before realizing the gun trafficker's error.