The Big Picture
Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman (Kevin Bacon), who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Nick thought his career was made after the award, but discovers Hollywood isn't as easy as it seems.
8 December 1964, Palo Alto, California, USA
17 September 1968, Santa Barbara, California, USA
24 January 1933, Florida, USA
29 December 1966, New York City, New York, USA
14 May 1948, Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
17 September 1928, Herne Hill, London, England, UK
4 October 1959, Pomona, California, USA
28 September 1943, San Francisco, California, USA
February 02, 2016
Partly romance, partly fantasy, partly satire on what passes for life in Hollywood -- and all charm -- this movie even has a perfect title.
April 09, 2007
Sometimes hilarious, sometimes chilling anti-Hollywood comedy.
February 09, 2006
The movie references may strike some as in-jokey, but Guest's likeable film has enough jaundiced sideswipes and lighter chuckles to see it through its slacker spells.
October 29, 2003
The Movie Machine is skewered and lampooned with an impressive accuracy, but it never crosses the line into becoming an outright bash.
May 12, 2001
You keep rooting for this Hollywood sendup to make it, even as the bad ideas start gaining on the good.
March 11, 2009
Befitting two of the co-authors of This is Spinal Tap, Guest and Michael McKean, The Big Picture displays a keen eye for the silliness of film biz customs, lingo and attitudes.
March 21, 2016
A genial and funny satire/comedy about an up-and-coming student filmmaker.
August 30, 2004
A consistently genial, intermittently funny send-up of the current Hollywood scene as demonstrated by the rise and fall of an award-winning film student.
February 02, 2016
A failed attempt to spoof the wheelers and dealers behind the scenes in Hollywood.
August 13, 2003
If only it was as clever as it believes itself to be.
February 02, 2016
[A] hilariously canny 1989 satire about contemporary filmmaking in Hollywood.
November 20, 2005
Very slight, but it hits most of its Hollywood targets with a certain degree of savvy.
