This Is Going to Be Big

Aug 9, 2023

1h 40m

★ 8.0

1 massive song, 4 eager students & countless challenges.

Overview

Peer behind the curtain as a cast of neurodivergent teens prepare to come of age and hit the stage in their school’s time-travelling, John Farnham–themed musical.

Genres

Documentary

Comedy

Production Companies

Truce Films

MIFF Premiere Fund

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Cast

Self

Darcy Nolan

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Tony Rains

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Lori Nichols

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Halle

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josh

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Chelsea

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Elyse

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0.0

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0.0

Utopia Ltd.

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7.2

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6.3

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5.7

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6.8

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

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6.7

Lucas

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A brilliant but socially inept 14-year-old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends – Cappie, an older-brother figure, and Maggie, the new girl with whom he is in love – fall for each other.

5.7

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6.4

Sex Drive

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A high school senior drives cross-country with his best friends to hook up with a babe he met online.

6.9

Peach Girl

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6.4

The Wackness

Jul 3, 2008

Set in New York City in the sweltering summer, The Wackness tells the story of a troubled teenage drug dealer, who trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist. Things get more complicated when he falls for one of his classmates, who just happens to be the doctor's daughter. This is a coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, music and what it takes to be a man.

5.8

Drillbit Taylor

Feb 4, 2008

Dealing with a sociopathic school bully, three high school freshmen hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them, not realizing he is just a homeless beggar and petty thief looking for some easy cash.

6.7

Charlie Bartlett

Feb 22, 2008

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0.0

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7.3

Superbad

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6.1

The Wild Chicks

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6.3

Jack

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Born with a rare condition that makes him age four times faster than normal, ten-year-old Jack Powell looks like a forty-year-old man. After years of homeschooling, he enters public school for the first time, eager to make friends and live like any other kid—only to discover that growing up too fast means learning some of life’s hardest lessons early.

6.8

Napoleon Dynamite

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A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.

This Is Going to Be Big

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