The Big Empty
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The Big Empty

Duration:
USA:20 min
Genres:
Drama | Fantasy | Short | Comedy
IMDB rate:
7.1
Director:
Lisa Chang
Awards:
2 wins
Details
Country: USA
Filming Locations: Los Angeles, California, USA
Cast
Actor
Character
Selma Blair
Alice
Elias Koteas
The Specialist
Richard Kind
Talk Show Host
Gabriel Mann
The Thoughtful Man
Simon Cole
Arctic Explorer
Richmond Arquette
Gynecologist
Ezra Buzzington
Cartographer
Linda Bisesti
Nurse
David Doumeng
Anchorman
Rita Taggart
Bookstore Co-Worker
Bob Stephenson
Doctor #1 (as Robert J. Stephenson)
DeForest Mapp
Doctor #2
Mobin Khan
Doctor #3
Grant Heslov
Doctor #4
Hugh Laurie
Doctor #5
William Stanford Davis
Doctor #6
Michael Bulander
Doctor #7
Robert Isaac Lee
Eskimo
Dinah Lee
Production Assistant
David Lee Smith
Mayor
Candy Clark
Mother
Parvesh Cheena
Sports Fan
Dan Harris
Twisted Teenager
Michael Dougherty
Off Kilter Teenager
Haskell Wexler
Bookstore Customer
Katrina-Jovan Howard
Audience Member (uncredited)
Larry Varanelli
Meteorologist (uncredited)
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Trivia
Based on the short story "The Specialist" by Alison Smith published in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern issue #11, "The Big Empty" was included in the inaugural issue of the DVD magazine Wholphin, also published by McSweeney's.
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Co-director Newton Thomas Sigel approached prosthetic effects maker Andy Clement about creating the oversized prosthetic of Alice's vagina for the film's opening shot. They had previously worked together on episodes of House M.D. (2004), for which Clement had made prosthetic babies. Sigel asked Clement "How are you with a vagina?"; he replied "No complaints so far". The vagina was built out of a tube of silicone big enough for a lens to fit in. Sigel was very impressed with it when he went to pick it up from Clement's workshop, and thanked him. Clement said he should thank all of the prosthetic crew, because it was "one vagina they'd all had a hand in".
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Shot on sets from ER (1994).
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