The Big Picture (1989)
Film school prepared Nick for everything... everything but Hollywood.
Director: Christopher Guest · Writers: Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Michael Varhol
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.
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Director
Christopher Guest
Cast
Kevin Bacon
Nick Chapman 
Emily Longstreth
Susan Rawlings 
J.T. Walsh
Allen Habel 
Teri Hatcher
Gretchen 
Michael McKean
Emmet Sumner 
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Lydia Johnson 
Kim Miyori
Jenny Sumner 
Dan Schneider
Jonathan Tristan-Bennet 
Jason Gould
Carl Manknik 
Tracy Brooks Swope
Lori Pressman 
Don Franklin
Todd Marvin 
Gary Kroeger
Mark User Reviews (1)
**_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 office. I wouldn’t want to blow time & money on seeing it at the theater, but it works well enough for home viewing on a quiet night or whatever. Winsome Emily Longstreth stands out on the feminine front as the protagonist’s girlfriend, Susan. She was a minor female sensation at the time who worke…
