He hates his job maintaining the operational software of a nuclear power plant in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. He is so competitive that the others use his name as a kind of expletive: 'Bostick!'īrad is a skilled birder who can identify nearly any species solely by sound.

She also believes that Bostick's birding obsession is what destroyed his two previous marriages. They are Brad Harris, 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.īostick is obsessively possessive of his record, but his third wife Jessica is concerned this was supposed to be the year they focused on conceiving a child. The film follows three seasoned birders who each set out to achieve a Big Year. It was released in the United Kingdom on December 2, 2011. The film was released on October 14, 2011, in the United States. The film uses the same premise with fictional characters.įilming for The Big Year took place from May to July 2010. The three actual birders were Sandy Komito, Al Levantin, and Greg Miller, who were chasing Komito's prior record. The book follows three men on a quest for a Big Year – a competition among birders to see who can spot and identify the greatest number of bird species in North America (north of Mexico) in a calendar year. The film was based on the 2004 non-fiction book The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature and Fowl Obsession by Mark Obmascik. The Big Year is a 2011 American comedy film starring Jack Black, Owen Wilson and Steve Martin, directed by David Frankel and written by Howard Franklin.

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