Trailer
Plot summary
Nick Chapman studies film and dreams of directing. His best friend Emmet Sumner wants to shoot the pictures as a cinematographer, and his girlfriend Susan Rawlings is training to be an architect. When Nick's short film wins the student award given by the National Film Institute, agents and executives in Los Angeles come after him. He takes on Neil Sussman as his agent and signs with the studio executive Allen Habel to make his first feature. Habel and Sussman picture a different movie from the one Nick has in mind, and Habel pushes for Gretchen, an aspiring actress, in a lead role. Nick's attention moves to the deal and away from Emmet and Susan.
Cast
- Gary Kroegeras Mark
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Big Picture (1989)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film was greenlit by David Puttnam, president of Columbia Pictures, who was ousted two weeks after production began; many executives in the regime that followed disliked the film because they felt they were being brutally satirised in it.
