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List Price: $24.95 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 47902
Released: October 8, 2002 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Christopher Guest cowrote and directed this solid spoof about the pitfalls of believing your own hype. Kevin Bacon plays a high-minded would-be filmmaker whose student movie wins a prestigious national award and an invitation to Hollywood. Before he knows it, he is being wined and dined by agents, producers, and studio executives, who treat him like the new Orson Welles--until he starts making his first studio movie. Then he becomes bait for the piranha-like bottom-liners, who teach him the unfortunate lesson that the flavor of the week often gets eaten alive. Watch for Martin Short as a hilariously feckless agent and Jennifer Jason Leigh as a surprisingly chipper film student, given her black-rimmed eyes and all-black wardrobe. --Marshall Fine
The Big Picture Reviews:
where is emily 
2008-02-15 -
Someone knows what became of emily longstreth,is she alive,where
is she,why she dissapear like that.
A very small picture from a big talent 
2007-07-15 - Following "Spinal Tap" but before striking comedic gold with his own successful series of "mockumentaries," Christopher Guest directed and co-wrote this awful lampoon of the Hollywood scene, in which an award-winning film student (Kevin Bacon) dips a toe in the deep waters of the big studio lagoon and nearly loses his soul. Bacon's character is hopelessly naïve to the point of appearing stupid. Are we really supposed to believe that anyone with even a nodding acquaintance with the film world would expect a major studio to back a black-and-white relationship drama about three people in a snowed-in cabin with no music by a first-time director? Furthermore, Bacon's character becomes so craven so fast and shows so little evidence of having any talent that it is impossible to maintain sympathy for him. The finale, in which he finally directs a project from his heart by making a video for an unknown band, thereby causing a big buzz in Tinseltown, is ridiculous, especially since the video and the song are so bad. It looks like an outtake of an unused Spinal Tap number. The entire film is so bland and uninspired that I wonder whether Guest's original vision went through a dumbing-down process similar to the one he depicts in his film.
GREAT MOVIE 
2007-05-13 - ANOTHER QUIET, CLEVER, WONDERFUL MOVIE THAT GETS NO PUBLICITY. MAYBE THEY SHOULD HAVE HAD VIOLENCE.....................
ANYWAY, GREAT MOVIE. UNTIL I SAW THIS I DIDN'T KNOW KEVIN BACON COULD ACT. HE CAN. HE REALLY CAN.
FAB
I'd Like to Thank My Grilled Cheese Sandwich.
2007-05-03 - For anyone that hasn't seen this movie, I highly recommend it. "The Big Picture" is simultaneously a parody of the movie business and the real story of how much luck and chance are involved in being successful in that business. Probably the best part of the story is towards the end, when Kevin Bacon's character makes his comeback (without even knowing it). I won't give too much away, but suffice it to say, a grilled cheese sandwich really can turn your directing career around.
Gets better everytime I watch
2006-09-20 - I just love this movie, but it may not be for all, since it is a very specific type of humor. Don't expect "Best in Show" or "Waiting for Gufman," because this is not a mockumentary, but rather a really funny movie about the ups and downs in Hollywood. And may I add, very on point. I just love it more and more...and wish Guest would direct another one this funny.
In love with both Emily Longstreth and Teri hatcher. I can't pcik which one, so I'll choose both!
