Movie Details

Title

The Big Picture

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.

Runtime

1 h 40 min

Release Date

15 September 1989

Actors

Kevin Bacon, Emily Longstreth, J.T. Walsh, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Michael McKean, Kim Miyori, Teri Hatcher, Dan Schneider, Jason Gould, Tracy Brooks Swope, Don Franklin, Gary Kroeger, Alice Hirson, Grant Owens, Fran Drescher, Suzy Cote, Eddie Albert, June Lockhart, Stephen Collins, Roddy McDowall, Robert Bauer, Vladimir Skomarovsky, C.W. Hemingway, Holly Fields, Yvonne Peattie, Stan Ivar, David Hayward, Caitlin Clarke, Nancy Valen, Wesley Pfenning, John Cleese, Richard Blake, Walter Olkewicz, Scott Coffey, Bruce Kirby, Richard Belzer, Beth Chamberlin, Mike Miller, Martin Short, Michael Jocum, Tim Landers, Martin Lund, Novi Novog, Tom Maier, Valen Watson, Jennifer Karr, Sue-Ann Leeds, Buddy Garion, Jim Pollack, Scott Williamson, Victor Steinbach, Arlene Lorre, George Rogan, Perla Walter, Pamela Morris, Lulie Newcomb, Patty Howeth, Britta Wilson, Suzee Slater, Brad Zutaut, Matthew Eichler, Nadine Lenore Patterson

Certification

PG-13

Genres

Comedy, Romance

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