The Big Year

Theatrical - Wide 2011-10-13

Cast Steve Martin Jack Black Owen Wilson Brian Dennehy Anjelica Huston
Directed by David Frankel
Written by Howard Franklin

Box Office Gross: $8,200,000

Running Time: 102 minutes

Language: English

Production Company: Ingenious Media, Fox 2000 Pictures, Deuce Three Productions, Sunswept Entertainment, Dune Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, Red Hour

Genres: Comedy

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Synopsis

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... See more coming out on top of the competition.

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Posted 15 years ago

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