Taglines: A comedy of incredible proportions.
My Giant movie storyline. A down-on-his-luck movie agent (Billy Crystal) goes to a movie site in Romania to be with his only client, his former paperboy. But once he gets there, the kid tells him he is getting a big time agent and that he is fired. Despondent, the agent roams the countryside until he loses control of his car and overturns into a pond where he seemingly is going to drown until a pair of gigantic hands pulls him free of the car.
Later he awakens in a monastery and discovers that a 7-1/2′ man (NBA player Gheorge Muresan) rescued him. Money dances in front of the agent as he figures ways to get him back to America and into the movies. The giant is only interested in getting to Gallup to see his childhood girl friend. First the agent gets him a small role in the Romanian-filmed movie which earns his plane fare. Then he takes him to Las Vegas where he convinces Steven Seagal (in a cameo as himself) to include the giant in a new action film.
My Giant is a 1998 comedy drama film starring Billy Crystal and NBA player Gheorghe Mureșan in his only film appearance, and directed by Michael Lehmann. Crystal also produced and co-wrote the story, which was inspired by professional wrestler André the Giant, whom Crystal had met during the filming of The Princess Bride.
My Giant (1998)
Directed by: Michael Lehmann
Starring: Billy Crystal, Kathleen Quinlan, Gheorghe Muresan, Joanna Pacula, Zane Carney, Jere Burns, Harold Gould, Dan Castellaneta, Doris Roberts, Lorna Luft
Screenplay by: Billy Crystal, David Seltzer
Production Design by: Jackson De Govia
Cinematography by: Michael Coulter
Film Editing by: Stephen Semel
Costume Design by: Rita Ryack
Set Decoration by: Sonja Klaus, Kathe Klopp
Art Direction by: Tom Reta
Music by: Marc Shaiman
MPAA Rating: PG for language, mild violence and brief crude humor.
Distributed by: Columbia Pictures
Release Date: April 10, 1998
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