The Big Year is a movie directed by David Frankel in 2011 and based on the book The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession by Mark Obmascik, first published in 2003. The movie features Steve Martin, Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Jim Parsons, Rosamund Pike, Anjelica Huston, and others.
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“The book is better than the movie”
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Storyline
The film follows three seasoned birders who each set out to achieve a Big Year. They are Brad Harri, a 36-year-old computer programmer based in Baltimore; Stu Preissler, founder and CEO of a New York company bearing his name; and a roofing contractor named Kenny Bostick, who holds the current Big Year record of 732 birds.
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Movie vs Book
Year
2011
Minutes
102
Movie Rate
6.20
Source: IMDb
Movie
The Big Year
Director: David Frankel
Country: USA
Year: 2011
Length: 1h42m
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Year
2003
Pages
288
Book Rate
7.90
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Book
The Big Year
Subtitle: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
Author: Mark Obmascik
Country: USA
First published in: 2003
Length: 288 pages
Genre: Biography
User polls & recommendations
“No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.”
KATHERINE PATERSON (Writer)
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