

The Big Picture
Film school prepared Nick for everything... everything but Hollywood.
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $5M
- Box office
- $117.5K
- Language
- English
- friendship
- hollywood
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical (limited)PG-1315 Sept 1989
AustraliaAU
- PhysicalM5 Mar 1990
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The Big Picture was released on 15 September 1989.
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Wuchak
4/10/2024
**_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…
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