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Midnight Mike
2009-08-28, 06:42 PM
Wow, this movie looks interesting!

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810057586/info


Paul Aufiero, a 35-year-old parking garage attendant from Staten Island, is the self-described "world's biggest New York Giants fan." He lives at home with his mother, spending his off hours calling in to local sports-radio station 760 The Zone, where he rants in support of his beloved team, often against his mysterious on-air rival, Eagles fan Philadelphia. His family berates him for doing nothing. but they don't understand the depth of his love of the Giants or the responsibility his fandom carries. One night, Paul and his best friend Sal spot Giants star linebacker Quantrell Bishop at a gas station in their neighborhood.

They impulsively follow his limo into Manhattan, to a strip club, where they hang in the background, agog at their hero. Paul cautiously decides to approach him, stepping into the rarefied air of football stardom -- and things do not go as planned.

The fallout of this chance encounter brings Paul's world crashing down around him as his family, the team, the media and the authorities engage in a tug of war over Paul, testing his allegiances and calling into question everything he believes in. Meanwhile, the Giants march toward a late-season showdown with the Eagles, unaware that sometimes the most brutal struggles take place far from the field of play.

moose135
2009-08-28, 08:09 PM
Paul Aufiero, a 35-year-old parking garage attendant from Staten Island, is the self-described "world's biggest New York Giants fan." He lives at home with his mother, spending his off hours calling in to local sports-radio station 760 The Zone, where he rants in support of his beloved team...
Sounds like the typical WFAN caller :D

Matt Molnar
2009-08-28, 09:37 PM
This sounds like a remake of The Fan (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116277/) (1996, Robert DeNiro, Wesley Snipes, Ellen Barkin) with a slightly different ending.

Midnight Mike
2009-08-28, 11:16 PM
This sounds like a remake of The Fan (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116277/) (1996, Robert DeNiro, Wesley Snipes, Ellen Barkin) with a slightly different ending.

Except for the title the two movies really do not have much in common except for the obsessive fan part, the movie "The Fan" Robert DeNiro plays an obsessive fan who kills to protect the career of his favorite baseball player.

Just a sidenote, I was in the movie The Fan. :borat: