Big Eyes

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A drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works i... Read allA drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.A drama about the awakening of painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.

Director
- Tim Burton
Writers
- Scott Alexander
- Larry Karaszewski
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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

102K

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Director
- Tim Burton
Writers
- Scott Alexander
- Larry Karaszewski
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 2 BAFTA Awards
- 3 wins & 18 nominations total

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Big Eyes: I Painted 'Em

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Trivia
Margaret Keane: Reading a book on a park bench behind Margaret and Walter, when they paint in front of the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts. The end-credit photo of her sitting with Amy Adams was taken when this scene was filmed.

Goofs
"Tomorrow Forever," the UNICEF painting Margaret Keane painted for the 1964 Worlds Fair, was never actually mounted in the Hall of Education. Robert Moses, who had control over everything that was included in the fair, hated it. Once New York Times critic John Canaday trashed it after seeing a photograph of it, Moses had it thrown into the garbage.

Quotes
Ruben: What's that with the big crazy eyes?
Walter Keane: Oh. Well, I believe that you can see things in the eyes. The eyes are the window to the soul.

Connections
Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Christoph Waltz/Nicki Minaj feat. Skylar Grey (2014)

Soundtracks
Tropicville
Written by Cal Tjader
Courtesy of The Weinstein Company

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9/10

A lovely comedy drama

Greetings from Lithuania.

"Big Eyes" (2014) is more of good feel comedy drama then a serious biography drama as it's genre indicates. Yes, it is based on a very true story, but this is not a typical biopic by any means. It's a "light" and easy movie, with some great performances by both leads, tight pacing, very nice writing and directing. No wonder that it was mentioned in an Comedy or Musical categories at Golden Globes and not in motion picture drama.

Overall, this is true very well made biography drama about some painters and frauds. Won't going to spoil anything, just going to say that i was very surprised by the ending when i find out that this actually happen, well, probably not word by word but the outcome did happen actually how it was portrait in the movie. This is a very fine picture from legendary director Tim Burton, and safe to say that this is his best movie in years simply by not being "a Tim Burton's" movie as we know them. This small budget picture (in terms of other's T.Burton's flicks) actually is much more lovely and intimate then his recent works. I will go even so far and say that i haven't enjoy his movie so much since 1999's "Sleepy Hollow".