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.
The Middle Of Nowhere Is A Funny Place To Find Yourself.
Acclaimed writer/director Jon Favreau (Elf) stars as a struggling actor about to enter a weirdly comic twilight zone. After agreeing to deliver a mysterious suitcase to a remote desert truck stop in exchange for $25K, John Person (Favreau) finds himself trapped in a bizarre world of unusual characters. Is the whole town mad, or are the Looney locals the only sane things about this strange parallel universe called The Big Empty?
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