Big Fan (2009)

Year: 2009
Director: Robert D. Siegel
Cast: Patton Oswalt, Kevin Corrigan, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Gino Cafarelli, Michael Rappaport

Plot outline: Paul Aufiero is a big fan of the New York Giants. A really, really big fan. When he has a violent confrontation with his favorite player, he must decide just how big a fan he is.

Standouts: I’m a fan of Patton Oswalt’s standup, but I’d never seen him do any acting before, not including one episode of King of Queens. I thought he did a good job here — it’s a tough role but he turned in a measured and thoughtful performance. I think I might have been expecting more in the way of laughs, what with Oswalt in the lead and the former editor-in-chief of The Onion as the writer-director. It was instead a rather dark character piece. It would have been easy to paint Oswalt’s character as a loser, but I thought the script had a lot of empathy for him.

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