So maybe I just don’t have particularly refined tastes, but it happens that this silly thing is one of my absolutely favorite movies; I’ve seen it at least four times already. (Others of my favorites include such serious human dramas as Gross Pointe Blank and Major League; this should give you an idea of where I log in on the culture scale. But then I did like Casablanca. But then, who didn’t?).
Okay, Big Year
is a hilarious story based loosely – very loosely - on fact. It relates the doings of three totally obsessed
birders, competing ruthlessly to see which of them can identify (see and/or
hear) the most North American bird species in a single calendar year. (This is a real activity; people do it). The movie stars three of the funniest guys on the
current film scene: Jack Black, Owen Wilson, and Steve Martin, with a couple of
great vignettes by Anjelica Huston. And
it has a narrator – John Cleese – whose “explanations” alone make you laugh. The Big
Year came out in 2011; if you missed it then, hunt it down and view it
now. It’s a good antidote to the current
news, A-
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