Zooey Deschanel’s New Movie, Gigantic

February 23, 2009 by Lynn

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[Poster: courtesy, Gigantic The Movie]

First of all, Bones fans, I know I’m posting a lot in the past few days about Emily Deschanel’s sister Zooey Deschanel, but I know that a lot of Emily fans are also Zooey fans. I hope you’ll bear with me. Zooey has been a very busy lady lately!! I just got some info about Zooey’s latest new movie that will hit the theaters starting in April. The movie is called Gigantic and I don’t know why. Zooey certainaly is NOT gigantic, so there must be a story behind the name…

Here’s the official description of the movie:

GIGANTIC: A film by Matt Aselton

“A lovely, funny, unabashedly odd romance from first-time feature filmmaker Matt Aselton.” –Steve Ramos, Indiewire

Brian (PAUL DANO) is a mattress store worker who wants to adopt a Chinese baby. When free-spirited Harriet aka “Happy” (ZOOEY DESCHANEL) comes into his store one day and falls asleep on a bed, he is swept up in a romance that rocks his quiet world. Their new love twists and turns around their many eccentric relatives and Brian’s looming call from the adoption agency. GIGANTIC also stars John Goodman, Ed Asner and Jane Alexander, and features a very special appearance by comedy genius Zack Galifianakis.

There’s also a cute trailer for the film. It looks like John Goodman plays Zooey’s character’s father and he seems a bit “odd” in a funny sort of way. And Ed Asner plays a quirky guy too. I think I’m going to like this movie. Here’s the clip, you’ll see what I mean:

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Gigantic will open in theaters in these cities:

April 3rd New York, NY – Village East Cinema [181 - 189 2nd Ave]
April 10th San Francisco, CA – Lumiere Theatre [1572 California St.]
April 10th Berkeley, CA – Shattuck Cinemas [2230 Shattuck Ave.]
April 17th Los Angeles, CA – Nuart Theatre [11272 Santa Monica Blvd.]
April 17th Dallas, TX – Angelika Film Center [5321 E. Mockingbird Lane]
April 24th Boston, MA – Kendall Square Cinema [One Kendall Square]
April 24th Austin, TX – Dobie Theatre [2021 Guadalupe St.]
April 24th Portland, OR – Regal Fox Tower [846 SW Park Ave.]
May 1st Hartford, CT – Real Art Ways [56 Arbor St.]
May 15th San Diego, CA – Ken Cinema [4061 Adams Ave.]
May 22nd St. Louis, MO – Tivoli Theatre [6350 Delmar in The Loop]

I also have a few photo stills from the movie. (There are lots more after the jump.)