Daniel Wallace presents Big Fish

Screening of the film Big Fish
Introductory remarks by and Q & A with Daniel Wallace
7 pm
Union Movie Theater Auditorium
Cosponsored by the Department of English

Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions, at
Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Ala., where he was filmed in a scene for the
movie Big Fish, based on his book. David Bundy/Montgomery Advertiser.

Join us in the Union Movie Theater Auditorium on Wednesday, March 9, at 7 pm, for a screening of the movie Big Fish (2003), adapted from Daniel Wallace's novel Big Fish: A Tale of Mythic Proportions (1998). Wallace will be on hand to introduce the film and take questions afterwards.

The story is about a son who tries to come to terms with his dying father by reliving the stories and myths his father told him about himself. Through these tales, the son begins to understand his father's great feats and his great failings.

Tim Burton directed Big Fish, and the all-star cast includes Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, and Helena Bonham Carter. The movie was filmed in Montgomery, Alabama.

In addition to Big Fish, Daniel Wallace is the author of two other novels, Ray in Reverse (2000) and The Watermelon King (2003). His stories have been published far and wide in many magazines and anthologies, including The Yale Review, The Massachusetts Review, Shenandoah and Glimmer Train, and his illustrated work has appeared in the L.A. Times and Italian Vanity Fair.