The Big Picture
The Big Picture

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Nick Chapman graduates from film school, and his short film wins a special prize. This gives him a high enough profile that he can get Hollywood to back the film he has long dreamed of making. Studio exec Allen Habel is interested. But Nick soon is seduced by Hollywood and makes one concession after another until his original movie is lost altogether. Worse, Nick is lost, too, turning on girlfriend Susan and old buddy Emmet. Will he come to his sense before everything is lost... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Big Picture:

Kevin Bacon
Emily Longstreth
J.T. Walsh
Teri Hatcher
Michael McKean
Jennifer Jason Leigh

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Nick Chapman graduates from film school, and his short film wins a special prize. This gives him a high enough profile that he can get Hollywood to back the film he has long dreamed of making. Studio exec Allen Habel is interested. But Nick soon is seduced by Hollywood and makes one concession after another until his original movie is lost altogether. Worse, Nick is lost, too, turning on girlfriend Susan and old buddy Emmet. Will he come to his sense before everything is lost?

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Variety - 10/10 by Variety StaffBefitting 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.
Chicago Tribune - 8/10 by Dave KehrOne of the smartest and funniest films of the year, at least for those who care about its subject. Every regular filmgoer should. Through the story of a talented but naive film school graduate (Kevin Bacon`s Nick Chapman) who suddenly becomes the hottest property in Hollywood, Guest assembles a deadly accurate sociology of the contemporary film industry-and its accuracy makes The Big Picture both hilarious and terrifying.
Apollo Guide - 8/10 by Scott WeinbergThe Movie Machine is skewered and lampooned with an impressive accuracy, but it never crosses the line into becoming an outright bash.
Chicago Reader - 7/10 by Jonathan RosenbaumChristopher Guest's hilariously canny 1989 satire about contemporary filmmaking in Hollywood
New York Times - 7/10 by Vincent CanbyThe Big Picture, the first theatrical film to be directed by the talented Christopher Guest (a co-writer and a star of ''This Is Spinal Tap), is 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.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews - 7/10 by Dennis SchwartzA genial and funny satire/comedy about an up-and-coming student filmmaker.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - 6/10 by Joe PollackThe Big Picture is a failed attempt to spoof the wheelers and dealers behind the scenes in Hollywood. Christopher Guest, who directed and cowrote this diatribe against the inanities of the studio system, has created what amounts to no more than a series of sketches that would probably work better on television than in this prolonged, belabored movie. 
Miami Herald - 6/10 by Juan Carlos CotoWhen Short is onscreen, a movie that provides only fitful laughter bubbles over into bliss.
Time Out - 6/10 by Nigel FloydThe 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.
People Magazine - 2/10 by Ralph NovakPartly romance, partly fantasy, partly satire on what passes for life in Hollywood -- and all charm -- this movie even has a perfect title.

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