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Posted: 10/7/2011
in theaters starting 8/28. For more information and nation-wide release dates see the official website: WWW.BIGFANMOVIE.COMFor more exclusive content, check out our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Big-Fan...The gifted Wrestler screenwriter Robert Siegel, in a directing debut of potent promise, turns Big Fan into something funny, touching and vital without ever resorting to snark or condescension. And Oswalt delivers a portrait full of a life in which fandom is one mans personal defense against loneliness. This ones a keeper. -Peter Travers, Rolling Stone 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 (MARCIA JEAN KURTZ), spending his off hours calling in to local sports-radio station 760 The Zone, where he rants and raves in support of his beloved team, often against his mysterious on-air rival, Eagles fan Philadelphia Phil (MICHAEL RAPAPORT). His family berates him for doing nothing with his life, but they don't 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 (JONATHAN HAMM) at a gas station in their neighborhood. They impulsively follow his limo into Manhattan, to a strip club, where they hang in the background, mesmerized by their hero. Paul cautiously decides to approach him, stepping into the rarefied air of football stardom--and things do not go as planned.