Gigantic (2008) (original) (raw)
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Original title
Gigantic
Year
2008
Running time
92 min.
Country
United States
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Genre
Comedy. Romance | Romantic Comedy. Independent Film (US). Family Relationships
Synopsis
Brian Weathersby (PAUL DANO) is a 28 year-old salesman at a high-end Swedish mattress company. The afterthought child to elderly parents (ED ASNER, JANE ALEXANDER), and the youngest son in a trio of successful brothers, a shady oil man (IAN ROBERTS), a surgeon (ROBERT STANTON), Brian is searching for his place in the world. Unfulfilled by his work he spends a good portion of his day pursuing his goal of someday adopting a baby from China. He gets swept up in a romance with the lovely but misguided Harriet Lolly (ZOOEY DESCHANEL) when she comes in to his store one day and falls asleep on one of the beds. To win her over, he must compete with her bear of a father, Al Lolly, (JOHN GOODMAN) an art-collecting loudmouth with a bad back and deep pockets. GIGANTIC is a funny, surreal love story about the anxiety that comes when two people with crazy families collide unexpectedly and fall for each other.
US release date: in theaters: April 3, 2009.
Critics' reviews
- O"n the basis of Gigantic, Matt Aselton can make a fine and original film. This isn't quite it, but it has moments so good, all you wish for is a second draft"
- "Dano is a talented actor who needs to aim higher, and it should go without saying that Deschanel can do - and should know - better."
- "This is loads of fun in the early stretch, as the characters are being introduced, but the story never really goes anywhere."
- "Inert, incompetent and emotionally fraudulent"
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