Big Nothing ( Big Trouble )

Big Nothing (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Big Trouble
Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
English ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
85 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2006 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Jean-Baptiste Andrea

Written By:
Billy Asher
Jean-Baptiste Andrea

Actors:
David Schwimmer ..... Charlie
Simon Pegg ..... Gus
Alice Eve ..... Josie McBroom
Jon Polito ..... Agent Hymes
Natascha McElhone ..... Penelope Wood
Mimi Rogers ..... Mrs. Smalls
Billy Asher ..... Deputy Garman
Julian Glover ..... 80 year old Blind Man
Olivia Peterson ..... Emily
Sarah Edmondson ..... Isabella
Amber Sealey ..... Call Center Supervisor
Shauna Shim ..... Melanie 1
Laurence Bouvard ..... Melanie 2
Mindy Lee Raskin ..... Melanie 3
Kenneth Jay ..... Barman

Synopsis:

Director Jean-Baptiste Andrea's wicked, jet-black comic thriller Big Nothing stars Friends mainstay David Schwimmer as Charlie Wood, a onetime American professor now married to a policewoman, Penelope (Natascha McElhone) and living in Oregon. As the story opens, Charlie takes a job as a telephone operator at an Information Technology call support center, but is promptly fired for making offensive comments to a customer. One of Charlie's shadier co-workers, Gus Dickinson (Simon Pegg) wheedles him into his plan to blackmail a priest, Rev. Smalls (Mitchell Mullen) by using "inside" information from the company that demonstrates the minister's obsession with internet porn. Thus begins an endless series of Mametian twists and turns involving double-cross, mistaken identity, forced drownings, poisonings, infidelities and cold-blooded mariticide, as the men attempt to collect on the money but run head-first into one outrageous conflict after another. Alice Eve, Mimi Rogers and Jon Polito co-star; Andrea and William Asher co-authored the script.

Charlie is an ex-teacher turned reluctant call center employee who gets fired on the first day. Distraught on being unable to provide for his daughter Emily and cop wife, Penelope, he is suddenly contacted by Gus, an aspiring scam artist who presents Charlie with a seemingly snag-free plan to make some cash: Blackmail Reverend Smalls a man of the cloth, who's frequently turned up in the company database of visitors to illegal porn-sites. Gus plans on extorting Reverend Smalls, with the intention of publicly exposing his secret shame, should he refuse, with this scandal potentially destroying the man's career. Normally cautious Charlie, is keen on participating in this scam, confident that with this money maker he'll garner from the deal and will finally help turn things around for him and his family. Joined by one-time teenage pageant queen Josie McBroom Gus's ex, the plan goes ahead...but it all goes wrong as Reverend Smalls dies...thanks to this trio, with this only being the start of their troubles.

In a role that couldn't be further away from his Friends character Ross, actor David Schwimmer stars in this dark crime comedy about inept blackmailers who decide to try for one big score wherein anything and everything goes horribly, violently wrong.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 08 February, 2012.

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