Fanboys (2009)

Directed by

Kyle Newman

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 904 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1998, a group of Star Wars superfans drive across the country to steal an early copy of The Phantom Menace. They do it to grant a dying friend's final wish. The trip involves jokes, arguments, and strange encounters.

nostalgicbittersweetplayfulearnestfast-pacedcomedicraucousheartfelt

What happens

Fanboys is a 2009 American comedy film directed by Kyle Newman, and starring Dan Fogler, Jay Baruchel, Sam Huntington, Chris Marquette, and Kristen Bell. The story follows a group of Star Wars fans who head on a road trip to Skywalker Ranch to steal a rough cut of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) for their dying friend. The Weinstein Company released it in the United States on February 6, 2009. Metacritic assessed the critical reception as "mixed". Rotten Tomatoes, another aggregator, said it received negative reviews and called it "undercooked [and] sporadically funny". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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