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Big Nothing (15)
- Consumer Advice: Contains strong language, moderate sex and bloody violence
- Run time: 1 hour 25 mins
- Genre: Comedy
- Release date: 1st December 2006
- Starring: Simon Pegg, David Schwimmer, Natascha McElhone
- Directed by: Jean-Baptiste Andrea
- Official Website: www.bignothing.co.uk
- Distributor: Pathe Distribution
Plot Synopsis
Charlie Wood (David Schwimmer), a down-on-his-luck, out-of-work teacher, is forced to take a job at a call center to provide for his wife Penelope (Natascha McElhone), a local police officer and their three year-old daughter Emily.
Before getting himself fired on his first day in the job, Charlie makes the acquaintance of Gus Dickinson (Simon Pegg), a reckless young guy who presents him with a seemingly snag-free plan to get rich quick: blackmail the priest who turned up in the company database of visitors to illegal porn-sites. The normally cautious Charlie wants in on the scam, confident that the cash he’ll garner from the deal will finally help turn things around for him and his family.
Charlie and Gus team up with Gus’s ex-squeeze, Josie McBroom (Alice Eve) - a smart-mouthed machiavelle and teenage pageant queen who wants to get away from small town life. The trio set off to make their easy money.
The scam turns out to be less than brilliant, the money not so easy, Charlie not that much of a criminal, Gus not as clever as he thought, Josie not who she said she was and nothing what it once seemed.
In a crazy, nightmarish night on the town, each twist of fate is more unexpected than the last.