Due to a high volume of active users and service overload, we had to decrease the quality of video streaming. Premium users remains with the highest video quality available. Sorry for the inconvinience it may cause. Donate to keep project running.
We are currently experiencing technical difficulties with our servers. We hope to have this resolved soon. This issue doesn't affect premium users.
Get Premium
Watch on MixDrop/MyStream
Oops...
Something went wrong
Try again later.
Something went wrong
Try again later.
Here You can choose a playback server.
The Big Picture
Description
Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman (Kevin Bacon), who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Nick thought his career was made after the award, but discovers Hollywood isn't as easy as it seems.
Hollywood beckons for recent film school grad Nick Chapman (Kevin Bacon), who is out to capitalize on the momentum from his national award-winning student film. Nick thought his career was made after the award, but discovers Hollywood isn't as easy as it seems.
Actors:
Richard Belzer,
Don Franklin,
Michael Jocum,
June Lockhart,
Emily Longstreth,
Robert Bauer,
Suzy Cote,
Matthew Eichler,
Nancy Valen,
Elliott Gould,
George Rogan,
...»
Richard Belzer
4 August 1944, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
Don Franklin
14 December 1960, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Michael Jocum
June Lockhart
25 June 1925, New York City, New York, USA
Emily Longstreth
5 January 1967, Orange County, California, USA
Robert Bauer
Suzy Cote
17 September 1968, Santa Barbara, California, USA
Matthew Eichler
Nancy Valen
14 December 1965, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Elliott Gould
29 August 1938, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
George Rogan
1 October 1943, Los Angeles, California, USA
Director:
Christopher Guest
Christopher Guest
5 February 1948, New York City, New York, USA
Country:
United States
COMMENTS (0)
Sort by
Newest
Newest
Oldest
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
Apollo Guide
October 29, 2003
The Movie Machine is skewered and lampooned with an impressive accuracy, but it never crosses the line into becoming an outright bash.
March 11, 2009
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.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
August 13, 2003
If only it was as clever as it believes itself to be.
March 21, 2016
A genial and funny satire/comedy about an up-and-coming student filmmaker.
Zap2it.com
November 20, 2005
Very slight, but it hits most of its Hollywood targets with a certain degree of savvy.
February 02, 2016
Partly romance, partly fantasy, partly satire on what passes for life in Hollywood -- and all charm -- this movie even has a perfect title.
February 02, 2016
[A] hilariously canny 1989 satire about contemporary filmmaking in Hollywood.
New York Times
August 30, 2004
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.
April 09, 2007
Sometimes hilarious, sometimes chilling anti-Hollywood comedy.
February 09, 2006
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.
February 02, 2016
A failed attempt to spoof the wheelers and dealers behind the scenes in Hollywood.
May 12, 2001
You keep rooting for this Hollywood sendup to make it, even as the bad ideas start gaining on the good.