DVD REVIEW: BIG FAN (2009)

From time to time I will review a lesser known film that perhaps didn't spend anough time in the theaters for you to catch it, but is now availiable on DVD.

Staying with the Football theme today is BIG FAN.

BIG FAN stars Patton Oswalt as Paul, an obessed New York Giants fan who is stuck with a tough decision after his gridiron hero assaults him in a strip-club.

The movie is the directing debut of Robert Seigel, writer of The Wrestler, and yet again he paints a dark and almost hopeless picture with this film. Oswalt, who is one of the funniest comedians on the planet, makes himself nearly unrecognizable in his creation of the character. You really do get sucked into the character of Paul, leading you up to a true feeling of anxiety and the story reaches it's climax. Seigel just plain knows how to write a story about sad and desperate individuals, and has presented another story that makes you want to take the characters off the screen and help them, while at the same time being infinitely entertained by their downfall.