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Fanboys

  • 20092009
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
59K
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POPULARITY
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Fanboys (2009)
Trailer: A group of anxious fans decide to break into Skywalker Ranch and steal an early print of "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace" for their friend who is suffering from cancer.
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Star Wars fanatics take a cross-country trip to George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch so their dying friend can see a screening of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) before its release... Read allStar Wars fanatics take a cross-country trip to George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch so their dying friend can see a screening of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) before its release.Star Wars fanatics take a cross-country trip to George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch so their dying friend can see a screening of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) before its release.
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
59K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
5,963
615
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Director
      • Kyle Newman
    • Writers
      • Ernest Cline(screenplay)
      • Adam F. Goldberg(screenplay)
      • Dan Pulick(story)
    • Stars
      • Dan Fogler
      • Jay Baruchel
      • Kristen Bell
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Kyle Newman
    • Writers
      • Ernest Cline(screenplay)
      • Adam F. Goldberg(screenplay)
      • Dan Pulick(story)
    • Stars
      • Dan Fogler
      • Jay Baruchel
      • Kristen Bell
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 87User reviews
    • 82Critic reviews
    • 45Metascore

    Videos2

    Fanboys
    Trailer 2:16
    Fanboys
    Fanboys: "Take Your Shirt Off"
    Clip 0:43
    Fanboys: "Take Your Shirt Off"

    Photos141

    Dan Fogler in Fanboys (2009)
    Dan Fogler in Fanboys (2009)
    Christopher Rodriguez Marquette in Fanboys (2009)
    Christopher Rodriguez Marquette in Fanboys (2009)
    Sam Huntington in Fanboys (2009)
    Sam Huntington in Fanboys (2009)
    Kyle Newman in Fanboys (2009)
    Kyle Newman in Fanboys (2009)
    Dan Fogler in Fanboys (2009)
    Kristen Bell in Fanboys (2009)
    Dan Fogler in Fanboys (2009)
    Jay Baruchel, Dan Fogler, and Sam Huntington in Fanboys (2009)

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    Dan Fogler
    Dan Fogler
    • Hutch
    Jay Baruchel
    Jay Baruchel
    • Windows
    Kristen Bell
    Kristen Bell
    • Zoe
    Sam Huntington
    Sam Huntington
    • Eric
    Christopher Rodriguez Marquette
    Christopher Rodriguez Marquette
    • Linus
    • (as Chris Marquette)
    David Denman
    David Denman
    • Chaz
    Christopher McDonald
    Christopher McDonald
    • Big Chuck
    • (as Chris McDonald)
    Charlie B. Brown
    • Myron
    Isaac Kappy
    Isaac Kappy
    • Garfunkel
    Stephen Pina
    • Simon
    Seth Rogen
    Seth Rogen
    • Admiral Seasholtz…
    Tarek Bishara
    Tarek Bishara
    • The Vulcan
    • (as Thom Bishops)
    • …
    Clark Sanchez
    • Bartender
    Stanley Shunkamolah
    • Thick-Necked Thug
    Danny Trejo
    Danny Trejo
    • The Chief
    Hugh Elliot
    • Ewok
    Allie Grant
    Allie Grant
    • Rogue Leader…
    Ethan Suplee
    Ethan Suplee
    • Harry Knowles
    • Director
      • Kyle Newman
    • Writers
      • Ernest Cline(screenplay) (story)
      • Adam F. Goldberg(screenplay)
      • Dan Pulick(story)
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Ray Park: Head guard at Lucas ranch, played Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999).
    • Goofs
      When everyone is being chased through Skywalker Ranch and jump down a garbage chute, Hutch dives in head first but when he exits he comes out feet first. This was regarded as an error but it is likely the director purposefully did this to spoof Star Wars (1977), in which Han jumps in head first and comes out feet first.
    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      Eric: Hey guys.

      Windows: What?

      Hutch: What, man?

      Eric: What if the movie sucks?

    • Crazy credits
      The Weinstein Company logo is backed by light saber sound effects.
    • Connections
      Edited into Fanboys: Deleted Scenes (2009)
    • Soundtracks
      Tubthumping
      Written by Danbert Nobacon, Dunstan Bruce, Alice Nutter, Louise Watts, Paul Greco, Darren Hammer (as Darren Hamer), Allen Whalley, Judith Abbot (as Judith Abbott)

      Performed by Chumbawamba

      Courtesy of Republic/Universal Records

      Under license from Universal Music Enterprises and EMI Music Germany GmbH & Co. KG

    User reviews87

    Review
    Review
    Top review
    The Fog of Wars
    Sam Huntington plays what may be the lead role in the otherwise ensemble Fanboys, not the friend who has been given four months to live but the guy inheriting the father's business and facing a future he equates with the dark side, not unlike George Walton Lucas Jr who did not want to simply inherit his father's stationery store. Huntington also appeared as the lead in another ensemble road movie Detroit Rock City, where he was under the thumb of a domineering religious mother. That film was released in 1999, a year after Fanboys begins its story.

    If you like Detroit Rock City, chances are Fanboys will appeal as well. Instead of KISS, these characters are obsessed with Star Wars in a period where there wasn't as much need to qualify those words. One of the guys happens also to be obsessed with the Canadian rock band RUSH. At first some references come from out of nowhere, but they add a texture – people are going to like what they like. In both movies, Huntington has a scene where he has to strip in a bar. It made more narrative sense in Detroit Rock City, but at least he's not alone in the humiliation and one of his friends takes the brunt of it.

    I didn't have to be a hardcore fan of KISS to enjoy Detroit Rock City and likely people don't have to be fans of RUSH or Star Wars to enjoy Fanboys but it will help. I enjoyed where the RUSH music ends up being used and it helps put the viewer in the nostalgic mindset of, well, teens of the early and mid nineteen-eighties – exactly the range of time (1982-1984) that four of the five guys were born; Kristen Bell was born in 1980, so she's an Empire Strikes Back baby. Dan Fogler was born in 1976, a year before Star Wars itself, but because he is heavy some in the audience may accept him as a childhood and high school friend of the others. His sensibilities are those of the director and at least one of the writers, all born in 1976, or perhaps closer to people like myself who were fans in their early thirties when the notorious 1999 Star Wars prequel hit us. The characters do seem to show up at a party with teenagers, and yet most own business. Ultimately they aren't meant to be flesh and blood. One happens to look like young George Lucas we've seen in file photos or from the funny short "George Lucas In Love," and Kristen Bell seems to have died her hair dark for one reason only: to look more Leia-like in a later scene. Seth Rogan plays three roles, which helps reinforce the unreality along with cameos by Jay and Silent Bob (Jason Mews and Kevin Smith) along with Smith's documentary guy Zack who was known to like donkeys in Clerks II. Billy Dee Williams and Carrie Fisher also pop up in amusing cameos that allow us to assume the interior of Skywalker Ranch in act II of the story may not have to look and work as it does or did in reality. (Much of Lucasfilm's operation has been moved to The Presidio property now.) For all the amusement and invention, and the heartfelt stakes at the heart of it with a friend's dying wish, the movie is a little short sighted in the sense that these young men – characters in their late twenties or early thirties – often talk in outbursts more suitable for thirteen-year olds. There is an over-the-top hatred between Star Wars and Star Trek fans, when in reality whether we like one brand more than the other there is more audience crossover than polarity. For a comic book store owner to throw out a member of the competing fan base and call him a "Kirk-loving Spock sucker" will play as off-putting and mean even if it is a satirical exaggeration meant to expose the absurdity of the Trek versus Wars rivalry. Unlike Ebert, I'm not bothered that the kid with cancer can participate in a fight, since no extraordinary skill is displayed, any more than the idea that he is walking around and simply taking his pills. It upholds the idea that genre trivia knowledge has an inverse relationship to carnal knowledge. The characters can be at once cool and pathetic, or offensively immature and brilliant which are combinations many people like to pretend do not exist in reality. Overly sensitive audiences won't like this movie. There are bumps along the way but I like where it is going, and it has a very appropriate ending line.

    Despite the very limited release of this movie and relatively little hype for the film itself as opposed to the internet controversy, Fanboys lives up to the anticipation a lot of us may have built up, unlike Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. When movies about 9/11 come out, many people coo "too soon." Maybe ten years after we met Jar Jar Binks we can finally laugh at the summer of 1999. Or maybe the solution ended up being this temporal displacement of a story that is really about being stuck in the late 70's and early eighties whether we had been born then or not, listening to RUSH and worrying only that Yoda sounds a bit like Sesame Street's Grover. Not an entirely unpleasant fog.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • February 13, 2009 (Iceland)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Official MySpace
      • Official site (Japan)
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Obozevalci
    • Filming locations
      • Hiland Theater - 4804 Central Avenue SE, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
    • Production companies
      • The Weinstein Company
      • Trigger Street Productions
      • Picture Machine
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $3,900,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $688,529
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $171,533
      • Feb 8, 2009
    • Gross worldwide
      • $961,203
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 30 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • SDDS
      • DTS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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