Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 15
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 1
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Release Date: Sep 15, 1989 Wide
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Another "get even with Hollywood" satire in the tradition of SOB and Movers and Shakers, The Big Picture is an elongated inside joke complete with un-billed celebrity cameos. In this first feature-film directorial effort by actor/writer Christopher Guest, Kevin Bacon plays a "boy wonder" director whose willingness to compromise his ideals allows him to keep afloat in Tinseltown. Bacon's corruption begins when his first Hollywood project, a black-and-white experimental film about an over-40
Sep 15, 1989 Wide
Oct 8, 2002
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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Sometimes hilarious, sometimes chilling anti-Hollywood comedy.
Very slight, but it hits most of its Hollywood targets with a certain degree of savvy.
The Movie Machine is skewered and lampooned with an impressive accuracy, but it never crosses the line into becoming an outright bash.
Kind of like the Player and The Scret Life of Walter Mitty, but not nearly as good as either.
May 7, 2007Super Reviewer
This was a good flick but there were elements introduced in the beginning of the movie that fell away. All of the actors did fine jobs but the movie was a little predictable. It was fun for the person who is familiar with how Hollywood works.One funny thing... it seemed that every character in the movie who smoke was
March 13, 2009
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