Big Fan R

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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 28 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
  • Released: July 28, 2017
  • Originally Released: 2009
  • Label: Film Rise

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 33,746
Rating: 3/4 -- First-time director Siegel shows promise. His script is solid, and although the last act feels somewhat awkward, the idea is clever. Full Review
Toronto Star
Nov 29, 2009
Rating: 3.5/5 -- Paul may in many ways be the ultimate 'loser' but he feels like a 'winner', so this becomes not just a study of obsession but of the essence of self-delusion and its importance in many people's lives. Full Review
Eye for Film
Feb 24, 2010
Writer-director Robert D. Siegel grew up listening to callers like Paul on The FAN, New York City's all-sports radio, and he gives us a bizarrely sympathetic portrait of a guy who is as devout and as obsessive as any religious fanatic. Full Review
Film.com
Nov 22, 2009
Rating: 3/4 -- Despite the rough-around-the-edges direction, this was a compelling character study, anchored by an astonishing performance by Patton Oswalt. Full Review
Film Geek Central
May 10, 2013
Rating: 3.5/4 -- Unlovable loser chooses the "low" road Full Review
Movie Habit
Sep 28, 2010
Rating: 3/4 -- It's a classic situation, transplanted to a small, petty arena. When I think of this movie, I think of Oswalt, how his anguish feels real (whether we understand it or not) and how his face unaccountably becomes an offbeat locus of dignity. Full Review
San Francisco Chronicle
Oct 23, 2009
Though the movie isn't much to look at, he gets a credibly dark and pathetic performance from the typically comic Oswalt. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Oct 2, 2009

Description by OLDIES.com:

Paul Aufiero (Patton Oswalt), a 35-year-old parking garage attendant from Staten Island, is the self-described world's biggest New York Giants fan. He lives at home with his mother, spending his off hours calling in to local sports-radio station where he rants in support of his beloved team, often against his mysterious on-air rival, Eagles fan Philadelphia Phil. Pauls family berates him for doing nothing with his life, but they dont understand the depth of his love of the Giants, or the responsibility his fandom carries. One night, Paul and his best friend Sal (Kevin Corrigan) spot Giants star linebacker Quantrell Bishop at a gas station in their neighborhood. They impulsively follow his limo into Manhattan, to a strip club, where they hang in the background, agog at seeing their hero. Paul cautiously decides to approach him, stepping into the rarefied air of football stardom, and things do not go as planned when he is unexpectedly beaten up by his favorite player. The fallout of this chance encounter brings Paul's world crashing down around him as his family, the team, the media and the authorities all engage in a tug of war over Paul, testing his allegiances and calling into question everything he believes in. Meanwhile, the Giants march toward a late-season showdown with the Eagles, unaware that sometimes the most brutal struggles take place far from the field of play.
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Product Info

  • UPC: 191091465158
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