Fresh
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.
Variety Staff, Variety
The Big Picture
Film school prepared Nick for everything... everything but Hollywood.
1989 · 1h 40m · PG-13
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Christopher Guest
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.
Director and cast
- Christopher Guest Director
- Kevin Bacon as Nick Chapman
- Emily Longstreth as Susan Rawlings
- J.T. Walsh as Allen Habel
- Teri Hatcher as Gretchen
- Michael McKean as Emmet Sumner
- Jennifer Jason Leigh as Lydia Johnson
- Kim Miyori as Jenny Sumner
- Dan Schneider as Jonathan Tristan-Bennet
- Jason Gould as Carl Manknik
- Tracy Brooks Swope as Lori Pressman
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
91%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Nigel Floyd, Time Out
Fresh
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.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
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