Gigantic
When it comes to family and relationships there are no small surprises. Brian (Paul Dano, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE) sells mattresses in a warehouse store. The afterthought child to elderly parents (Ed Asner, Jane Alexander), and the youngest son in a trio of successful brothers, Brian is searching for his place in the world. Unfulfilled by his work he spends a good portion of his day pursuing his goal of someday adopting a baby from China. He gets swept up in a romance with the lovely but misguided Harriet “Happy” Lolly (Zooey Deschanel, 500 DAYS OF SUMMER) when one day she comes in to his store and falls asleep on one of the beds. To win her over, he must compete with her bear of a father, Al Lolly (John Goodman) an art-collecting loudmouth with a bad back and deep pockets. GIGANTIC, Matt Aselton’s feature debut, is a funny, surreal love story about the anxiety that comes when two people with crazy families collide unexpectedly and fall for each other.
This film has been rated: 14A - Content advisory - Coarse Language, Sexual Content
View Trailer | leapbeforeyoulook.comOfficial Selection AFI Dallas 2009
- Director: Matt Aselton
- Executive Producer: Paul Dano, Scott Ferguson, Jerry Solomon, Jeff Preiss, John Wells
- Producer: Mindy Goldberg, Christine Vachon
- Screenwriter: Adam Nagata, Matt Aselton
- Cinematographer Peter Donahue
- Editor: Beatrice Sisul
- Music: Roddy Bottum
- Cast: Paul Dano, Zooey Deschanel, Ed Asner, Jane Alexander, John Goodman
