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I Watch Films: Nobody (2021)

  Nobody (2021) Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk) works in the office of his father-in-law’s (Michael Ironside) light industrial shop. He seems to have a dull, repetitive life, slightly distant from his wife (Connie Nielsen), son and daughter. He sometimes goes to see his father (Christopher Lloyd) who watches TV in the retirement home. He always misses putting the bins out on time. Two thieves break into the house and steal things; Hutch is behind them with a golf club but doesn’t attack them. Everyone thinks he’s a failure; his son complains to his face, his brother-in-law gives him a gun. On the phone he tells his brother he knew the thieves gun wasn’t loaded. We know he was much more prepared for violence than he pretends. His daughter discovers her cat bracelet is missing. Hutch remembers a tattoo on one of the thieves, and uses that, along with father’s badge and gun (he’s retired FBI), to track them down. When he gets there they don’t have the bracelet, and need the money f...

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