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.

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.

Long before he played the corpulent Goldfinger, German actor Gert Froebe was a scarecrow-skinny comedian. In Berliner Ballade, Froebe makes his screen debut as Otto, a feckless Everyman who 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. Director R. A. Stemmle doesn't have to strive for pathos: he merely places his gangly star amidst the ruins of a bombed-out Berlin, and the point is made for him. Filmed in 1948, Berliner Ballade was later released in the U.S. as The Berliner.

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

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.