My Giant is a 1998 comedy drama film starring Billy Crystal, and NBA player Gheorghe Muresan in his only film appearance. Crystal also co-wrote the story. A huckster named Sammy travels to Romania on business. After a disappointment, he crashes his car and is rescued while unconscious by an enormous Romanian man named Max , close to 8 feet tall. Once he wakes up and interacts with Max, he sees potential stardom in him. Sammy attempts to broker his introduction into the movies. In doing so he exploits Max's desire to visit a long-lost paramour, Lilliana, in Gallup, New Mexico. First, Max... obtains the role of a villain in a movie, but he is so drunk that he vomits on the protagonist. However, the scene is included in the movie. One day, Sammy talks to Steven Seagal about including Max as a villain in one of his movies, convincing him that he needs a different kind of villain. At first Seagal rejects him because there was another actor who would take that role, but he changes his opinion after listening an extract of a Shakesperian play done by Max.
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| Release date: | April 10, 1998 |
| Directed by: | Michael Lehmann |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 104 Minutes |
| Producer: | Billy Crystal |
| Editor: | Stephen Semel |
| Music by: | Marc Shaiman |
| Cinematography: | Michael Coulter |
| Screenplay by: | David Seltzer |
| Genre: | Comedy |