The Big Empty
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Steve Anderson
Daryl Hannah
Kelsey Grammer
Rachael Leigh Cook
Jon Favreau
Sean Bean
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
John Person is a 30-something struggling actor living alone and facing eviction from his unfurnished apartment in Hollywood. Behind on his rent and heavily in debt, he goes against the better judgment of his pretty neighbor Grace and accepts an unsolicited offer from his strange neighbor Neely to courier a blue suitcase up to the desert truck stop of Baker, California. There, in the middle of nowhere, at a seedy motel in the shadow of The World's Largest Thermometer, he'll simply deliver the locked suitcase to a trucker called Cowboy and be paid twenty-seven thousand dollars in cold, hard cash. John's given a loaded gun and told he must defend the blue suitcase with his life. It's easy money. But on arrival he discovers he's already missed the mysterious man and soon he's reluctantly mixed up with young local vixen Ruthie, her mother Stella, Ruthie's hot-headed jealous boyfriend Randy and paranoid, alien-obsessed locals. When special agent Banks arrives at the local watering hole to question him about the murder and decapitation of his strange neighbor and hundreds of people recently gone missing, John realizes that he might be mixed up in something much more dangerous and bizarre than he ever imagined. Nothing is ever easy.
Director
Steve Anderson
Cast
Daryl Hannah
Kelsey Grammer
Rachael Leigh Cook
Jon Favreau
Sean Bean
Adam Beach
Bud Cort
Joey Lauren Adams
Melora Walters
Jon Gries
Gary Farmer
Brent Briscoe
Crew
Steve Anderson
Dondi Bastone
Steve Bickel
Kristin M. Burke
Gregg L. Daniel
Eric J. Feig
Steven G. Kaplan
Jeffrey Kramer
Douglas Mankoff
Chris Manley
Aaron Osborne
Keith Resnick
Scot Scalise
Andrew Spaulding
Brian Tyler
Jory Weitz
Peter Wetherell
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Fall November 21, 2003
Released in United States November 2003
Released in United States on Video April 20, 2004
Released in United States on Video April 20, 2004
Released in United States November 2003 (Shown at AFI/Los Angeles International Film Festival (American Directions) November 6-16, 2003.)
Released in United States Fall November 21, 2003
