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Plot summary
In San Francisco in the 1950s, Margaret was a woman trying to make it on her own after leaving her husband with only her daughter and her paintings. She meets gregarious ladies' man and fellow painter Walter Keane in a park while she was struggling to make an impact with her drawings of children with big eyes. The two quickly become a pair with outgoing Walter selling their paintings and quiet Margaret holed up at home painting even more children with big eyes. But Walter's actually selling her paintings as his own. A clash of financial success and critical failure soon sends Margaret reeling in her life of lies. With Walter still living the high life, Margaret's going to have to try making it on her own again and re-claiming her name and her paintings.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Big Eyes (2014)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Kate Hudson and Thomas Haden Church were originally set to star, with filming due to begin in June 2008 before it was pushed back for reasons related to a new Screen Actors Guild contract; Tim Burton became involved as a producer in September 2010, and by April 2012 Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Reynolds were attached to star.
- Big Eyes was the first Tim Burton film since Edward Scissorhands in 1990 to be edited by someone other than his longtime editor Chris Lebenzon, who was unavailable because he was working on Maleficent that same year.
- The paintings were recreated by prop artist Lisa Godwin, who made considerable effort to imitate Keane's style without directly copying any given painting.
