Genre: Romance, Drama, Comedy, Love
Tagline: Life has a role for everyone.
Plot: After being dumped by his girlfriend, Peter Rooker (Marcus Thomas) finds himself in a rut. Bored with his job and lacking any close friends, Peter spends his free time sitting on a couch parked in his front lawn in the company of several neighborhood cats. It is this sense of purposelessness that attracts Peter to the poster he passes every morning announcing auditions for the upcoming Portland community theater production of CYRANO DE BERGERAC. Wondering whether this might be the breath of fresh air he's been looking for, Peter hesitantly buys the play and starts reading it over. After days of deliberating, he finally forces himself into the audition room, where, despite his undeniably terrible reading, he is given the play's starring role by a director (Claire Higgins) who senses a fire and passion beneath Peter's dull exterior.In order to pull off Cyrano and stand up to the flamboyant, overwhelming personalities of the theater, Peter must become less of a pushover. Through rehearsals, and middle-of-the-night visits from eccentric cast members like over-the-top Michael Degan (SEX AND THE CITY's John Corbett), Peter is forced to come out of his shell and take on a more active role on the stage, and off. Aside from growing as an actor, the theater community encourages Peter to
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 The surprising thing about ''Bigger Than the Sky'' is its touching ending.  --Anita Gates (The New York Times)
...you're left with nearly two hours of an earnest, predictable comedy about a pathetic schlemiel who hopes to redeem himself by acting in the community theater.  --Debra Birnbaum (New York Post)
There are some bright spots in this woefully earnest production, the most bizarre of which is a sequence involving a pompous and bloated theatre critic prone to elfin-tweezed eyebrows and sonorously catty pronouncements – Rex Reed as realized by William Conrad – but for the most part Bigger Than the Sky is awash in the obvious and sports a patently predictable outcome.  --Marc Savlov (Austin Chronicle)
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| Directed by |
Al Corley
Don Juan DeMarco, Drowning Mona, Palmetto |
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| Cast |
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 | Amy Smart
The Butterfly Effect, Starsky & Hutch, Road Trip |
 | Sean Astin
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
 | Clare Higgins
Hellraiser, Hellbound: Hellraiser II, The House of Mirth |
 | Patty Duke
Prelude to a Kiss, The Miracle Worker, The Swarm |
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| Music By |
Rob Cairns
Party at the Palace: The Queen's Concerts, Buckingham Palace, Rockfish, Billy's Dad Is a Fudge-Packer |
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| ...unless you're intimately involved in the inner world of community theater, or you are nostalgic for your high school drama class, there's no reason to see this film. --Mike Szymanski
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