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Big Nothing (2006)

★ 6.5 · 474 ratings on TMDB

They wrote the book on how not to be criminals.

Big Nothing poster★ 6.5

A frustrated, unemployed teacher joins forces with a scammer and his girlfriend in a blackmailing scheme.

DirectorJean-Baptiste Andrea
CastAlice Eve, David Schwimmer, Jon Polito, Julian Glover, Mimi Rogers, Natascha McElhone
GenresAction, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
The emergence reading

Big Nothing keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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