Bigger Than The Sky

Movies about community theater are rare, and movies about community theater that aren't dedicated to mocking the delusions of amateur thespians are rarer still, so fans of backstage soap operas will cheer this sincere melodrama. Dumped by yet another girlfriend in Portland, Oregon, sad-sack Peter Rooker (Marcus Thomas) takes comfort in the promotion his slave-driver boss has promised and looks to self-improvement books for a way out of his loneliness and dissatisfaction. Peter's daily rounds take him past a community theater on his daily rounds, and one day he summons up the courage to audition for Edwina Winters (Clare Higgins). Unlike the confident, semi-profession...