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Big Fan (2009)
A dark, daring look into die-hard football fandom — and all the toxic masculinity that goes along with it — Big Fan revolves around the life of Paul Aufiero (Patton Oswalt), whose singular obsession with the New York Giants spirals out of control. Bleak, biting, and (ultimately) bloody, it's the rare film that puts our sports-crazed society under the microscope, and should be required viewing for every dude (it's always a dude) who spends hours shouting on sports-talk radio.
A dark, daring look into die-hard football fandom — and all the toxic masculinity that goes along with it — Big Fan revolves around the life of Paul Aufiero (Patton Oswalt), whose singular obsession with the New York Giants spirals out of control. Bleak, biting, and (ultimately) bloody, it's the rare film that puts our sports-crazed society under the microscope, and should be required viewing for every dude (it's always a dude) who spends hours shouting on sports-talk radio.
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