He Was a Quiet Man

Infobox film
name = He Was a Quiet Man


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caption = "He Was a Quiet Man" film poster
director = Frank Cappello
producer = Frank Cappello
writer = Frank Cappello
starring = Christian Slater
Elisha Cuthbert
William H. Macy
Sascha Knopf
John Gulager
Jamison Jones
music = Jeff Beal
cinematography = Brandon Trost
editing = Kirk M. Morri
distributor = Bleiberg Entertainment
released = 2007
runtime = 109 min.
country = USA
language = English
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website = http://www.hewasaquietman.com/
amg_id = 1:391464
imdb_id = 0760311|

"He Was a Quiet Man" is a 2007 drama film, written and directed by Frank Cappello. The film stars Christian Slater, Elisha Cuthbert and William H. Macy.

Plot

Bob Maconel (Slater) is a disillusioned office worker with ideas of murdering his co-workers. However, on one particular bad day, Bob crosses the line from potential killer to inadvertent hero – a fellow co-worker "goes postal" and shoots up the office before Bob does. Bob stops the shooter's plans by killing him with the gun he planned to use on the others, and in the process saves Vanessa's (Elisha Cuthbert) life. The former invisible nobody is suddenly thrown into the spotlight of public notice, he is considered a hero by those he wished to murder, promoted by a grateful boss to "VP of Creative Thinking" and given all the perks of higher management. Meanwhile, he saves the object of his desire only to have her ask him to end her life; her injuries have left her a quadriplegic. Vanessa asks Bob to let her roll down a subway platform in front of an oncoming train. Unable to go through with it he stops her just before she reaches the train. They soon discover that she can wiggle her little finger, providing hope that she may recover. Soon, Bob and Vanessa start dating. However Bob is still trapped by the demons of his past, and has insecurities that as soon as Vanessa recovers, she will leave him. Towards the end, he breaks down and decides to finish what his co-worker had started by shooting the rest of the people at the company. However at the very end of the scene, it is revealed that Bob has been hallucinating all of the events since just before the initial shooting. This time, he is in the same position as his coworker was, only instead of killing his coworkers, he shoots himself in front of Vanessa. The very last scene he says "you may ask why I did what I did.....if only someone had reached out". In the news with reporters interviewing his neighbors, they all say that "he was mostly a quiet man who kept to himself".

Cast

*Christian Slater as Bob Maconel
*Elisha Cuthbert as Vanessa Parks
*William H. Macy as Gene Shelby
*Sascha Knopf as Paula
*Jamison Jones as Scott Harper
*Michael DeLuise as Detective Sorenson

External links

* [http://www.hewasaquietman.com/ Official site]
*imdb title|id=0760311|title=He Was a Quiet Man
*rotten-tomatoes|id=10009156-he_was_a_quiet_man|title=He Was a Quiet Man
*metacritic film|id=hewasaquietman|title=He Was a Quiet Man
*amg movie|id=1:391464|title=He Was a Quiet Man