Big Stan (2007)

Directed by

Rob Schneider

Genre

comedy film, action film, prison film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 45m

Rated

R

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 1,066 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A real estate con artist is sentenced to three years in prison. He spends six months training with a martial arts guru to survive behind bars.

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What happens

Big Stan is a 2007 American martial arts prison comedy film starring, produced, and directed by Rob Schneider in his directorial debut with help from his company From Out of Nowhere Productions. The rest of the cast includes Jennifer Morrison, Scott Wilson, Henry Gibson, Richard Kind, Sally Kirkland, Jackson Rathbone, M. Emmet Walsh, Dan Haggerty, and David Carradine. It tells the story of a real estate con artist who gets sentenced to three years in prison and spends the six months beforehand getting trained by a martial arts guru to survive in prison. This film was Gibson's final role before his death in 2009 (the year in which Carradine also died). Although released in some markets during the fall of 2008, it was released straight to DVD in the United States on March 24, 2009. It debuted at number 17 on the DVD rental charts of March 23–30, 2009. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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