My Giant |  | Director: Michael Lehmann
Actors: Billy Crystal, Kathleen Quinlan, Gheorghe Muresan, Joanna Pacula, Zane Carney
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Category: DVD
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Rating:  18 reviews
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 2
Picture Format: Array
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 104 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: DC2535D
ISBN: 0780623258
UPC: 053939253528
EAN: 9780780623255
Theatrical Release Date: April 10, 1998
Release Date: September 29, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
TALENT SCOUT SAMMY KAMIN INSISTS HIS NEW DISCOVERY IS THE BIGGEST THING TO HIT ACTION FILMS SINCE, WELL, THERE HASN'T BEEN ANYONE THIS BIG. BUT IS A CHANCE TO STAR OPPOSITE STEVEN SEAGAL WHAT THIS GENTLE GIANT REALLY WANTS?
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This Billy Crystal vehicle suffers from too much sentimentality that competes with the outrageous physical comedy, but still manages to be funny enough to be worth a look. Crystal plays a shallow sports agent on tour in Eastern Europe, smarting from the separation from his wife and kid, when he literally crashes into a discovery that might resurrect his career. He finds a giant in a rural town (NBA Basketball player Gheorghe Muresan) and takes him back to America in the hopes of exploiting his find, but soon discovers that loyalty and being true to the things that are important to him are what really matters. It's the physical comedy and the contrast between the titanic Muresan and the diminutive Crystal that sustains the movie beyond its premise. Crystal's personality and Muresan's genuine nature make My Giant rise above its gimmicky nature. --Robert Lane
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 Touching movie! September 14, 2009
Alan J. Rainbow (Central New York)
Very much underrated. Laugh out loud funny at times, and has plenty of sentimental moments too...
review of my giant movie February 12, 2009
Lee Buzilow (Pa.)
very good movie, involves a 7 foot 7 individual living in Europe in love with a girl living in the states, who has no time for him. i recommend it strongly for those liking tall people.
one of Billy Crystal's Very Best December 5, 2006
L. Hunt (Citizen Of The World)
This is mainly a romance movie, but also a comedy. It's a movie about friendship, compassion, and love. Very unique & Excellent.
 The Movie that ended both of Georghe Murasan's careers! September 20, 2006
Ricahrd A. Salzer (Chesapeake, Virginia, USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Georghe Murasan was a 7'7" Roumanian
Basketball Centre who Comedian (sup-
posedly) Billy Crystal tabbed to c0-
star with him in this surprisingly
unfunny Comedy about a Talent(less)
Talent agent, Sammy Kamin, who goes
to Eastern Europe to find 'the next
big thing', and he literally does!
Murasan, who injured his ankle so
badly in this film just jumping
across a stream in what became an
outtake scene, that he only came
back and played one more NBA game
(0-1 shooting for New Jersey), is
a tame, gentle giant in a Monestary
that Pulls Kamin out of his upside-
down in a stream rental car and
saves the losers life. I really
hate to put Crystal, who like
myself is a rabid L.A. Clippers
fan, but this movie is just not
very good. The ending, where the
smarmy Kamin gets his come-uppense
is solid but along the way we en-
counter a wrestling scene (NATU-
RALLY!) AND a vulgar Rabbi, play
ed by ex-McHale's Navy vet Carl
Ballantine, who eats pork! If
this your idea of humour, you might
like it but I didn't!
 Enjoyable June 12, 2006
Tennis91
This movie was about a giant who meets an agent(Billy Crystal). They travel to United States and appear in a couple of movies. This movie shows the relationship of the two people, and the relationship improves throughout the movie. If this movie didn't have Billy Crystal it would of been a failure, but since it did it was funny and enjoyable.
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