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The Big Year

2011 · 102 min

A gentle, scenic comedy that ambles through a year of birding, mixing mild rivalry with warm life lessons.

Directed by
David Frankel
Genres
Comedy
Tagline
Everyone is searching for something.
Overview
Three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of rare breeds flying up into the U.S., but they quickly discover that there are more important things than coming out on top of the competition.

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Directed by
David Frankel
Genres
Comedy
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • obsession
  • friendship
  • ambition
  • family
  • identity
Places
  • road trip
  • wilderness
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour6
Realism7
Romance3
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight5

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Genres
comedy
Directed by
David Frankel
Written by
Howard Franklin
Starring
Steve Martin, Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Brian Dennehy, Anjelica Huston, Rashida Jones, Rosamund Pike, Dianne Wiest
Music
Theodore Shapiro
Cinematography
Lawrence Sher
Runtime
102 min
Country
United States of America, United Kingdom
Languages
English

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