The Middle Man (2021)

Directed by

Bent Hamer

Genre

drama film, comedy film

Country

Germany, United Kingdom, Denmark, Norway

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

12

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 55 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a small, economically depressed town, a man is hired by the municipality to deliver bad news to residents. The film follows his unpleasant job and the strange situations that arise.

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What happens

The Middle Man is a 2021 black comedy film, directed by Bent Hamer. An adaptation of Lars Saabye Christensen's 2012 novel Sluk, it is set in a small town that is so economically depressed that the municipality hires Frank Farrelli (Pål Sverre Hagen) as a middle man for the increasingly frequent task of delivering bad news to inhabitants. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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