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Original title: Big Empty, The
Release Date
• USA: Nov 14, 2003
DVD Release Date
• R1: Apr 20, 2004
Official Website:
The Big Empty Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for language and some sexual dialogue.
Running Time
1 hour, 34 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Aura Entertainment, Echo Lake Productions (I), North by Northwest Entertainment, Rainstorm Entertainment, The Big Empty LLC
Studio Aura Entertainment, Echo Lake Entertainment, North by Northwest Entertainment, Rainstorm Entertainment
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Genre: Mystery, Drama, Sci-Fi, Comedy, On The Road, Black Comedy, Scams And Cons, Investigation
Tagline: Cowboys. Aliens. Blue suitcases and bowling balls. Strange things are happening out in the middle of nowhere.
Plot: John Person (Jon Favreau) is a 30-something struggling actor living alone and facing eviction from his one room apartment in Hollywood. Behind on his rent and heavily in debt, he goes against his better judgment- and that of his pretty neighbor Grace (Joey Lauren Adams)- and accepts an unsolicited offer from his strange neighbor Neely (Bud Cort) to courier a blue suitcase up to the desert truck stop of Baker, California. There, in the middle of nowhere, at a seedy motel in the shadow of The World's Largest Thermometer, he'll simply deliver the locked suitcase to a trucker called Cowboy (Sean Bean) and be paid twenty-seven thousand dollars in cold, hard cash. Seems like it’s easy money. But then John's given a loaded gun and told he must defend the blue suitcase with his life. On arrival in Baker, he discovers he's already missed the mysterious man and soon he's reluctantly mixed up with young local vixen Ruthie (Rachael Leigh Cook), her mother Stella (Darryl Hannah), Ruthie’s hot-headed jealous boyfriend Randy (Adam Beach) and paranoid, alien-obsessed locals. When special agent Banks (Kelsey Grammer) arrives at the local watering hole to question him about the murder and decapitation of his strange neighbor and hundreds of people recently gone missing, John realizes that he
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Dogma, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Coyote Ugly |
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Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Blade Runner, Kill Bill: Vol. 2 |
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