The Minus Man is a 1999 film based on the novel by Lew McCreary. It was directed by Hampton Fancher, who also wrote the screenplay. The film centers on a psychotic killer whom Fancher describes as “a cross between Psycho’s Norman Bates, Melville’s Billy Budd and Being There’s Chauncey Gardner”
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