A white perforated cinema ticket on a dark textured background. Printed header reads “Leisure Services Arts & Entertainments” with theatre mask icons. The film title “The Big Picture” is printed in dot-matrix style. Certificate “15”. Price £1.40. Screening time “Fri 01 Feb 91 at 19.30”. Seating listed as “Stalls”. Additional box office and serial number text appears along the right side.
Film poster for The Big Picture. A young man sits inside a shopping trolley holding a film camera, wearing a backwards red cap, casual jacket and trainers, against a plain white background. Tagline reads: “Film school prepared Nick for everything… everything but Hollywood.” The title “THE BIG PICTURE” appears in large red serif text below, with credits in small print at the bottom.
From what I can tell this was Christopher Guest’s first produced screenplay after This Is Spinal Tap, and also his feature directorial debut. Not the first film about Hollywood, but one of the earlier ones to take aim at the whole notes-and-executives circus.
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