The Big Picture (1989)
"Film school prepared Nick for everything... everything but Hollywood."
ThumbScore
👍 66%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 87%
(RT: 87%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Emily Longstreth as Susan Rawlings
J.T. Walsh as Allen Habel
Kim Miyori as Jenny Sumner
Dan Schneider as Jonathan Tristan-Bennet
Is The Big Picture good?
It's divisive. 66% audience score, estimated from 111 TMDB ratings. Critics rated it higher at 87%, but audiences were less impressed.
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. Wikipedia ↗
