Bigger Than the Sky

2005 "Life has a role for everyone."
5.9| 1h46m| PG-13| en
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After being dumped by his girlfriend, a man stuck in a deadend life decides to audition for a small role in a local community theatre's production of Cyrano de Bergerac. Despite having no experience as an actor, he lands the lead role, which wreaks havoc upon his life.

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GamerTab That was an excellent one.
Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film
BallWubba Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.
Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
TxMike I am almost the nerd guy in his movie. Even though I am a scientist, while in graduate school in the 1960s virtually fell into a student stage production, all 28 performances that ran for 4 weeks. Later, as a young parent, I watched my children in summer community theater productions of such musicals as Wizard of Oz and Sound of Music, while I played trumpet with the stage band in the pit. Community theater in many ways changed my life, opened up a new way of looking at the world. It does that to you.Marcus Thomas, from Belgium, plays Peter Rooker, living and working in Portland, Oregon. By appearances a very boring life. He is a type of 'mister cellophane'. But he notices a poster on his way to work, tryouts for "Cyrano". On a whim he goes, with absolutely no concept of what he was doing (I remember my own such first tryout experience!). He predictably does very poorly, he knows it, everyone else there knows it, but the director saw something, and unreasonably casts him as Cyrano! This sets the stage for all the developments that follow. Any person with a community theater interest surely will enjoy this movie, as will many others who don't share that interest.Others include John Corbett as Michael Degan, experienced actor who gets the part of Christian. Amy Smart as Grace Hargrove, who gets the part of Roxanne. Sean Astin who plays demanding actor Ken Zorbell. And his real life mother Patty Duke who plays dual role of twins, Mrs. Keene and Earlene.SPOILERS FOLLOW. Peter continues to be bad, even though everyone works with him. He just cannot get "into" the role. As opening night nears, reluctantly the director asks Zorbell to be Cyrano, it is the key role in the play. But, in a humorous turn of events Zorbell, having been very difficult, is locked out, Peter makes a last minute entrance as Cyrano, and in full costume transforms himself, he does a great job, and gets many cheers at the curtain call. As the DVD container says, "There are moments in your life that are bigger than you think." Perhaps bigger than the sky.
pmcallister I cannot fathom how 41% of the people who saw this movie rated it a 10. That fact makes me sad to share the same chromosomes as other humans. This is literally the worst movie I've seen in over a year. The acting is great, if you think that playing a guy down on his luck and socially inept should imply probable autism or some other mental disability. After 5 minutes of dialogue, it is clear that this movie is going no where, fast. The dialogue is forced and ridiculous - and as far away from believable as possible. The only reason I saw this movie was because it is based in Portland, where I live. More suitable casting might have entailed the man who played Corky on TV's "Life Goes On." No, I'm serious.
FORREST136 Saw this interesting film the other day and I would recommend it! Interesting story set in Portland Oregon. Any theatre buffs would love it. The only negative comment I have is the darkness of the film! Director,Where are the lights? Patty Duke looks great and plays twins again! Really touching ending! Hope that this film gets national release! The theatre I saw it at did not even have an accompanying poster advertising the film.Sean Astin plays a small part in the film. I was wondering if this was the first time that mother and son had appeared together on screen?Check your local newspaper for this film!If you love the theater you will love "Bigger Than The Sky".
BrandonCarmody Release Date Announced: FEBRUARY 18thI received this message from Rodney Vaccaro:"Brandon, I enjoyed reading your account of working on the movie in Portland. I'm Rodney Vaccaro and I wrote it. I just wanted to drop you a line to tell you the release date is February 18th. It'll be released in six cities initially and one of them is Portland. I saw the movie finished about two months ago and it looked great. Thanks for working on it. Best, Rodney."I would suggest checking your local listings, also keep an eye on Regal Cinemas for show times. If I hear of any special screening events I will definitely make a post here. For the time being I am planning on buying tickets for any showings on the 18th, I have already taken the day off work. :) Looking forward to it!Thanks, Brandon Carmody - Actor

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