The Man Who Wasn't There

The Man Who Wasn't There

“Being invisible gets you into spy rings, diplomatic circles, and the girls' locker room.”

August 12, 1983R1h 51mTMDB ★ 4.3

When he accidentally takes possession of a top-secret invisibility potion while en route to his wedding, government bureaucrat Sam Cooper finds himself engulfed in a madcap free-for-all as Russians and other bad guys try to get the substance. To elude the Reds, his own State Department bosses and his livid fiancée, Cooper takes the vanishing juice himself—which only makes matters worse.

Genres

Action, Comedy, Science Fiction

Studio

Paramount Pictures

Language

en

Status

Released

Box Office

How The Man Who Wasn't There performed

Budget

$6.5M

Worldwide Gross

$2.4M

Gross Profit

−$4.1M

Return

0.4× budget

Opening Wknd (est.)

$325K

Domestic (est.)
International (est.)
$855K$2M

Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~35/65, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (38% of the domestic run, typical for Action) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.

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