Very Big Shot

Very Big Shot

Film poster
Directed by Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya
Produced by Lucien Bou Chaaya
Christian Bou Chaaya
Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya
Written by Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya
Starring Alain Saadeh
Music by Michel Elefteriades
Cinematography Fady Kassem
Edited by Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya
Simon el Habre
Distributed by Netflix
Front Row Filmed Entertainment
Salim Ramia & Co.
Release dates
  • 11 September 2015 (2015-09-11) (TIFF)
  • 19 November 2015 (2015-11-19) (Lebanon)
Running time
107 minutes
Country Lebanon
Language Lebanese Arabic

Very Big Shot is a 2015 Lebanese comedy film directed by Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya.[1] It was screened in the Discovery section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.[2] The original soundtrack was composed, arranged and produced by Michel Elefteriades.[3][4][5] It was selected as the Lebanese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards.[6][7]

Cast

Plot

Brothers Ziad (Alain Saadeh) and Joe (Tarek Yaacoub) run a small but lucrative drug-dealing business out of their takeout pizzeria in one of Beirut’s working-class districts. With their youngest brother Jad (Wissam Fares) about to be released from prison – where he was serving a sentence for a crime that Ziad had committed – Ziad and Joe plan to go straight by using their coke-peddling profits to open a restaurant. But Ziad’s supplier, a powerful drug lord who is none too keen to see his dealers retire, convince the brothers to take on one last job: smuggling a million-dollar shipment of Captagon - a locally manufactured amphetamine - to Syria, where the drug is wildly popular with militia fighters.

Smelling a trap, Ziad and Jad hatch a plan to divert the shipment to Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, where they have a secure connection. By chance, they learn that cans of exposed film reels are spared the obligatory X-ray at the Beirut airport, as the radiation can damage the footage. Overnight, the three brothers become the producers of a feature film directed by Charbel (Fouad Yammine), a talentless filmmaker and frequent customer whose tab at the pizzeria has vastly exceeded his means. As the shipping date approaches, the boys race to finalize the details of their very big plan while warding off the suspicions of their vengeful boss.

See also

References

  1. "Very Big Shot Review". Variety. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  2. "Very Big Shot". TIFF. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
  3. Film Kteer Kbeer 'Very Big Shot' - Official Trailer #1. YouTube. 18 December 2015.
  4. "Very Big Shot - Film Kteer Kbeer". Very Big Shot - Film Kteer Kbeer. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
  5. "Very Big Shot (Film Kteer Kbeer)". DFI. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
  6. "كتير كبير.. فيلم لبناني مرشح للأوسكار". masralarabia. 12 September 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  7. Salazar, Francisco (20 September 2016). "Oscar 2017 Predictions: Lebanon selects TIFF film 'Very Big Shot'". Latin Post. Retrieved 20 September 2016.

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