Movies and TvShows featuring "average-man" theme.

A drifter living in Depression-era USA agrees to impersonate a fictional character for a newspaper hoax, but ends up becoming a symbol of hope and inspiration for the struggling working class. As his popularity grows, he is faced with the choice to reveal the truth or continue the charade.

A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.

After losing a high-stakes poker game, a man is forced into indentured servitude and becomes trapped in a model town built by an eccentric millionaire. He seeks revenge and forms an unlikely alliance with a card shark to escape.

Otto, a feckless Everyman, tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-market profiteers and government bureaucrats, Otto begins fantasizing about a happier life at the end of that ever-elusive rainbow.

In this comedy of frustration, the fates conspire against gun salesman Edgar Kennedy, and he cannot find peace on the Pullman train he is traveling on.