Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Based on the box office info, this is a low-cost movie with very little sales ... but that barely disqualifies it from being a really fine movie, does it?drawing on a highly popular yet not easy to handle story, the eternally great work of classic literature, Cyrano de Bergerac, and playing with it subtly to explore into real life characters is not a simple task really and this little yet unrated movie has done a truly fine job indeed ...well worth watching and even archiving it for future for those who care ... well done indeed ...

What do you do when the color suddenly leaves your already beige life? When your girlfriend dumps you because you are dull and boring? When your boss offers a promotion to Art Director because you are a Team Player and work By The Book and, as there is no "I" in Team, there is also no "I" in Peter Rooker? When the only friend you have to hear your tale of woe is your sister?If you are Peter Rooker (Marcus Thomas) you audition (awfully) for a part in the local Community Theater's production of Cyrano.And, against all odds, land the lead!As Peter embarks on his Quest for self-improvement he picks up a cast of quirky actors, directors, techies and fans who ignore his whining, push him to overcome his horrible acting skills, teach him about life, friendship, fun, betrayal, loyalty.....They help him find the "I in Me".The cast features an Indie-quality smorgasboard of wonderfully talented actors, including John Corbett, Amy Smart, Patty Duke, Sean Astin, Clare Higgins, Allan Cordliner; hilariously painful and heartwarming direction both on-screen and off; a powerful soundtrack....A truly intellectual romantic comedy, refreshingly unique, heartwarmingly painful at times....this movie held my attention from the first scene to the ending credits. All 23 times I've watched it. Definitely a "10" all the way around.

Bigger Than the Sky aired on Reel13 tonight in New York City. If we want to continue to enjoy films of this quality in the future, we should continue to support public broadcasting. I fear that in the days ahead, PBS will suffer from lack of funding as many Americans reduce their contributions to the arts. If we're all going to stay home and try to save money, we should consider what we'll be watching if PBS isn't allowed to continue providing high quality content. Having said that, I was wondering where the last line of the film came from? Something about a place of my own? Additionally, the speech that included the title Bigger Than the Sky, where's that from? Obviously I'm not an actor. I just like good movies.

I am almost the nerd guy in his movie. Even though I am a scientist, while in graduate school in the 1960s virtually fell into a student stage production, all 28 performances that ran for 4 weeks. Later, as a young parent, I watched my children in summer community theater productions of such musicals as Wizard of Oz and Sound of Music, while I played trumpet with the stage band in the pit. Community theater in many ways changed my life, opened up a new way of looking at the world. It does that to you.Marcus Thomas, from Belgium, plays Peter Rooker, living and working in Portland, Oregon. By appearances a very boring life. He is a type of 'mister cellophane'. But he notices a poster on his way to work, tryouts for "Cyrano". On a whim he goes, with absolutely no concept of what he was doing (I remember my own such first tryout experience!). He predictably does very poorly, he knows it, everyone else there knows it, but the director saw something, and unreasonably casts him as Cyrano! This sets the stage for all the developments that follow. Any person with a community theater interest surely will enjoy this movie, as will many others who don't share that interest.Others include John Corbett as Michael Degan, experienced actor who gets the part of Christian. Amy Smart as Grace Hargrove, who gets the part of Roxanne. Sean Astin who plays demanding actor Ken Zorbell. And his real life mother Patty Duke who plays dual role of twins, Mrs. Keene and Earlene.SPOILERS FOLLOW. Peter continues to be bad, even though everyone works with him. He just cannot get "into" the role. As opening night nears, reluctantly the director asks Zorbell to be Cyrano, it is the key role in the play. But, in a humorous turn of events Zorbell, having been very difficult, is locked out, Peter makes a last minute entrance as Cyrano, and in full costume transforms himself, he does a great job, and gets many cheers at the curtain call. As the DVD container says, "There are moments in your life that are bigger than you think." Perhaps bigger than the sky.