The Middle Man is a 2021 comedy film, directed by Bent Hamer. A coproduction of companies from Norway, Germany, Denmark and Canada, the film is set in Karmack, a small town in the American Midwest that is so economically depressed that it hires Frank Farrelli (Pål Sverre Hagen) as a middle man to deliver bad news to people because none of the residents can bear to do it themselves anymore. The film is an adaptation of Lars Saabye Christensen's 2012 novel Sluk.