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* DidNotDoTheResearch: Thankfully averted for the most part, with accurate depictions of birds and their calls.
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* ShownTheirWork: Thankfully played straight, for the most part, with accurate depictions of birds and their calls.
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''The Big Year'' is a 2011 [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] of the 2004 book by Mark Obmascik starring JackBlack, SteveMartin and OwenWilson as three birders, each trying to break the "Big Year" record of most bird species seen in North America in a calendar year. InspiredBy the true story of the 1998 Big Year competition, it follows Black as Brad Harris, a computer programmer with an expert knowledge of bird calls who's saved up enough money to finally do a Big Year; Martin as Stu Preissler, a corporate executive on the verge of retirement; and Wilson as Kenny Bostick, a contractor and the current record-holder with 732 species.
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''The Big Year'' is a 2011 [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] of the 2004 book by Mark Obmascik starring JackBlack, SteveMartin and OwenWilson Owen Wilson as three birders, each trying to break the "Big Year" record of most bird species seen in North America in a calendar year. InspiredBy the true story of the 1998 Big Year competition, it follows Black as Brad Harris, a computer programmer with an expert knowledge of bird calls who's saved up enough money to finally do a Big Year; Martin as Stu Preissler, a corporate executive on the verge of retirement; and Wilson as Kenny Bostick, a contractor and the current record-holder with 732 species.
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* LivingMacGuffin: ''[[GottaCatchThemAll Any]]'' bird, really, but the snowy owl in particular takes this role for Bostick, as does the pink-footed goose for Brad and Stu.
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* LivingMacGuffin: ''[[GottaCatchThemAll Any]]'' bird, really, but the snowy owl in particular takes this role for Bostick, Kenny, as does the pink-footed goose for Brad and Stu.
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* RivalsTeamUp: [[spoiler: Brad and Stu]] towards the end, on the theory that someone has to beat [[spoiler: Bostick's record]].
* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: Invoked by [[spoiler: Bostick in a discussion with his wife]] but ultimately deconstructed [[spoiler: at the end by Brad and Stu]].
* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: Invoked by [[spoiler: Bostick in a discussion with his wife]] but ultimately deconstructed [[spoiler: at the end by Brad and Stu]].
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* RivalsTeamUp: [[spoiler: Brad and Stu]] towards the end, on the theory that someone has to beat [[spoiler: Bostick's Kenny's record]].
* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: Invoked by [[spoiler:Bostick Kenny in a discussion with his wife]] but ultimately deconstructed [[spoiler: at the end by Brad and Stu]].
* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: Invoked by [[spoiler:
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* CaliforniaDoubling: British Columbia and the Yukon doubled for most of the American settings.
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* CoolOldLady: Brad's mother.
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* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:Kenny]]
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* KnowledgeBroker: Rare bird alert hotlines.
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* InVinoVeritas: When Brad first tells Stu about his Big Year attempt.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: JohnCleese narrates a short film explaining the history of Christmas Bid Counts and Big Years.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: JohnCleese narrates a short film explaining the history of Christmas Bid Bird Counts and Big Years.
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* {{Adorkable}}: Ellie.
* CoolOldGuy: Stu.
* CoolOldGuy: Stu.
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* LivingMacGuffin: ''[[GottaCatchThemAll Any]]'' bird, really, but the snowy owl takes this role for Bostick, the pink-footed goose for Brad and Stu.
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* LivingMacGuffin: ''[[GottaCatchThemAll Any]]'' bird, really, but the snowy owl in particular takes this role for Bostick, as does the pink-footed goose for Brad and Stu.
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* LivingMacGuffin: [[GottaCatchThemAll ''Any'' bird, really]], but the snowy owl takes this role for Bostick, the pink-footed goose for Brad and Stu.
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* LivingMacGuffin: [[GottaCatchThemAll ''Any'' ''[[GottaCatchThemAll Any]]'' bird, really]], really, but the snowy owl takes this role for Bostick, the pink-footed goose for Brad and Stu.
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* LivingMacGuffin: [[GottaCatchThemAll ''Any'' bird, really]], but the snowy owl takes this role for Bostick, the pink-footed goose for Brad and Stu.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: JohnCleese narrates a short film explaining the history of Christmas Bid Counts and Big Years.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Unlike the book, the names of the participants were changed and the events of the 1998 Big Year record attempts were explicitly changed to another year, despite the exact series of unusual weather events that made the 1998 record possible being accurately depicted.
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* SettingUpdate: Very subtle example, with obviously modern cellphones and a minor blogging subplot added to an adaptation of a book about events that took place in 1998.
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* SettingUpdate: Very subtle example, with obviously modern cellphones cellphones, at least one hybrid vehicle and a minor blogging subplot added to an adaptation of a book about events that took place in 1998.
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* Determinator: All three main characters, in their own ways.
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* Determinator: {{Determinator}}: All three main characters, in their own ways.
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* Determinator: All three main characters, in their own ways.
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* HorribleCampingTrip: The honeymooning couple on Attu.
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* CursedWithAwesome: Stu lost his sense of smell in an accident with industrial chemicals, which comes in very handy chasing rare birds at a garbage dump.
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* CursedWithAwesome: Stu lost his sense of smell in an accident with industrial chemicals, [[spoiler: which comes in very handy chasing rare birds at a garbage dump.dump]].
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* TheFilmOfTheBook: That probably very few people reading the original book ever expected to see.
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* TheMovie: That probably very few people reading the original book ever expected to see.
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* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: Invoked by [[spoiler: Bostick in a discussion with his wife]] but ultimately deconstructed [[spoiler: at the end by Brad and Stu]].
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* SettingUpdate: Very subtle example, with obviously modern cellphones and a minor blogging subplot added to an adaptation of a book about events that took place in 1998.
* TheMovie: That probably very few people reading the original book ever expected to see.
* TheMovie: That probably very few people reading the original book ever expected to see.
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* BlessedWithSuck: Stu lost his sense of smell in an accident with industrial chemicals, which comes in very handy chasing rare birds at a garbage dump.
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* BlessedWithSuck: Stu lost his sense of smell in an accident with industrial chemicals, which comes in very handy chasing rare birds at a garbage dump.
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* PekingDuckChristmas.
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* RivalsTeamUp: [[Spoiler Brad and Stu]] towards the end, on the theory that someone has to beat [[Spoiler Bostick's record]].
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* RivalsTeamUp: [[Spoiler [[spoiler: Brad and Stu]] towards the end, on the theory that someone has to beat [[Spoiler [[spoiler: Bostick's record]].
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* InsistentTerminology: Stu corrects a colleague who makes the mistake of calling birding "bird watching." Definitely [[TruthInTelevision truth in television]] in this case.
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* RivalsTeamUp: [[Spoiler Brad and Stu]] towards the end, on the theory that someone has to beat [[Spoiler Bostick's record]].
* SeriousBusiness: [[CaptainObvious Birding]].
* SeriousBusiness: [[CaptainObvious Birding]].
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* InspiredBy: To quote the opening titles: "This is a true story. Only the facts have been changed." Though aside from the characters' names being changed, their personal lives being fictionalised and the story being reset in the 2000s, the movie actually follows the [[NonFiction nonfiction]] book it was based on quite closely for the most part.
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''The Big Year'' is a 2011 [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] of the 2004 book by Mark Obmascik starring JackBlack, SteveMartin and OwenWilson as three birders, each trying to break the "Big Year" record of most bird species seen in North America in a calendar year. InspiredBy the true story of the 1998 Big Year competition, it follows Black as Brad Harris, a computer programmer with an expert knowledge of bird calls who's saved up enough money to finally do a Big Year; Martin as Stu Preissler, a corporate executive on the verge of retirement; and Wilson as Kenny Bostick, a contractor and the current record-holder with 732 species.
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* HappilyMarried: Stu and his wife, Edith.
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* WellDoneSonGuy: Brad's cantankerous father thinks there are better ways his son could spend his time and money.
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* InvisibleAdvertising: Fox hardly promoted the film, only releasing a trailer one month before release and having said trailer completely lie about the premise.
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!! Tropes in this film
