Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3356 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-04-16
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 86 minutes

Synopsis
Charlie Wood (David Schwimmer, FRIENDS) is an unemployed teacher who is forced to seek work at a call centre in order to provide for his family, which consists of his policewoman wife and a young daughter. After being fired for insulting a customer he thought had been kept on hold, call centre employee Gus Dickinson (Simon Pegg, SHAUN OF THE DEAD) proposes a blackmailing scheme. A priest has turned up on a database of people who have accessed illegal porn sites and Gus suggests that they ask him for a large sum of money to buy their silence. When Gus’ former girlfriend Josie McBroom (Alice Eve, STARTER FOR TEN) gets wind of the scheme, the trio embark on their plan. However, things don’t go exactly the way they envisioned and problems soon start mounting up. Set mostly in the chilly night of Oregon and shot in Wales, the Isle of Man, and British Columbia, BIG NOTHING is a black comedy heist film. Jean-Baptiste Andrea (DEAD END) has crafted a sharp, funny, and smart film that makes full use of its charismatic actors. Despite its inevitable comparisons with FARGO, BIG NOTHING manages to be both inventive and witty.

Customer Reviews

A Dark Shallow Grave (Only Darker)
This is a really good film. It is a silly dark comedy. Its like a darker but also sillier version of Shallow Grave. If you like your comedy black this is for you. Its not friends or Run Fat Boy Run which would explain all the one and two star reviews. Not Peg or Schwimmer,s usual stuff. This has a much darker tone than Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuss. Although that stuff is violent it has a positive out look on friendship and is also fun. This has very little laugh out load stuff, and is more like grim ironic chortling stuff. Very good but only watch if you like this sort of thing.

My wife hated it.

Big Nothing Indeed.
I have to admit to having watched this under duress- it really wouldn't be the kind of film that I would normally pick up for myself, but I was over-ruled by the men in my household! So I sat down, and I promised to try. Nothing much happened for the first ten minutes or so, but then that can be the case with the very best films, so I sat there in eager anticipation of some semblance of a story to develop.

It just never materialises, I'm afraid. I'm not a fan of violence for its own sake, but I assure you that this wasn't the problem here. The violence wasn't excessive, neither was the acting, nor the direction, nor the writing. That was just it- it has an overwhelming whiff of 'blah' about it. It is a fairly featureless landscape as a film.

I did run this by the chaps, because this sort of film is more their cup of tea (ordinarily) than it is mine. They also agreed that it is watchable but nothing special. What we would call a 'non-starter', and certainly a 'try before you buy'. Approach with caution, as I suspect that you will have seen superior films.

This REALLY is a BIG Nothing!!!
What happened???!!!
Simon Pegg (as an american, accent, warts and all!!!) and David Schwimmer are really nothing to write home about! This film aspires to be a black comedy- a sinister view of... forget it- there really are NO hidden agendas, plots or funny gags in this pointless film. Simon Pegg- WHAT are you thinking??!!Taking on everything on offer...With a back-catalouge like Spaced, The Asylum, Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead and much more-HOW can you do this??!!!
I REALLY want to warn anyone considering buying this- Don't!!!Get a roll of toilet paper and have more fun watching that instead!