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15/09/1989 Comedy, Romance, Drama 1h 40m
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Film school prepared Nick for everything... everything but Hollywood.

Overview

Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman, who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Studio executive Allen Habel seduces Nick with a dream deal to make his first feature, but once production gets rolling, corporate reality begins to intervene: Nick is unable to control a series of compromises to his high-minded vision, and it's all he can do to maintain his integrity in the midst of filmmaking chaos.

  1. Christopher Guest

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Kevin Bacon

    Nick Chapman

  2. Emily Longstreth

    Susan Rawlings

  3. J.T. Walsh

    Allen Habel

  4. Teri Hatcher

    Gretchen

  5. Michael McKean

    Emmet Sumner

  6. Jennifer Jason Leigh

    Lydia Johnson

  7. Kim Miyori

    Jenny Sumner

  8. Dan Schneider

    Jonathan Tristan-Bennet

  9. Jason Gould

    Carl Manknik

  10. View more

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak
Written by Wuchak on 2024-04-10
**_Satire on Hollywood and the filmmaking process with Kevin Bacon_**

After a film student from Ohio (Bacon) wins an award for his short movie at the film institute in Los Angeles, he has to carefully traverse the minefield of the system to get his artistic vision made. JT Walsh plays a manipulative producer and Martin Short a dubious agent.

“The Big Picture” (1989) is an amusing look at the moviemaking process in Hollywood. The humor is mostly droll or quirky and viewers not up on the business might not relate to some of it, which could explain why the flick flopped at the box offic...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$5,000,000.00

Revenue
$117,463.00

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