As a longtime listener, no-time caller of WFAN, New York’s nexus of sports-talk radio, I can’t help but find something mildly relatable about the deranged devotion of Paul Aufiero (an authentically schlubby Patton Oswalt), a 36-year-old Staten Island loser who habitually phones radio shows to blab about his beloved football Giants. Realism, though, is only partially sought by Big Fan, the directorial debut of The Wrestler scribe Robert D. Siegel, which fancifully imagines such sports chatterboxes as neo-Travis Bickles, dangerously unstable loners with skewed perspectives on themselves and the world.
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