Big eyes / The Weinstein Company presents ; a Tim Burton Electric City Entertainment production ; a Tim Burton film ; produced by Lynette Howelle, Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski ; produced by Tim Burton ; written by Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski ; directed by Tim Burton.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: WC61780 | Anchor BayZWC61780 | Anchor BayLanguage: English, Spanish Original language: English Subtitle language: English, Spanish Publisher: Beverly Hills, CA : Anchor Bay Entertainment, [2015]Copyright date: Ã2015Description: 1 videodisc (105 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- Container of (expression): Big eyes (Motion picture). Spanish
- Container of (work): Big eyes (Motion picture)
- Music, Danny Elfman ; costume designer, Colleen Atwood ; editor, JC Bond ; production design, Rick Heinrichs ; director of photography, Bruno Delbonnel.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The true story of painter Margaret Keane's life in obscurity while her husband gleaned the notoriety for being the face of her work is brought to the screen by Tim Burton and his Ed Wood screenwriters, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. The story opens in the late 1950s, when Margaret Keane (Amy Adams) packs up the car with her daughter and their personal belongings, and leaves her husband to start a new life in San Francisco. There, Margaret quickly reconnects with her old friend DeeAnn (Krysten Ritter), and falls head over heels for Walter (Christoph Waltz), an artist and part-time real-estate broker who soon shows great interest in her unique paintings of small children with strikingly expressive, saucer-like eyes. Before long, the two are married, and Walter is claiming credit for Margaret's increasingly popular paintings. With the money rolling in, Margaret initially agrees to go along with the ruse, but the closer she gets to her new husband the more she begins to realize that he's little more than a smooth-talking scam artist. Later, riddled with guild over the fact that she's been deceiving her own daughter as her paintings become a pop-culture phenomenon, Margaret leaves the increasingly abusive Walter, and moves to Hawaii. Only then does Margaret gain the confidence to reclaim the works that have been credited to her husband, even when doing so entails going before the judge and proving that she and she alone created the enchanting children with the big eyes. Danny Huston, Terence Stamp, and Jason Schwartzman co-star. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi
Originally released as a motion picture in 2014.
Special features: The making of Big Eyes.
Music, Danny Elfman ; costume designer, Colleen Atwood ; editor, JC Bond ; production design, Rick Heinrichs ; director of photography, Bruno Delbonnel.
Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston, Jon Polito, Krysten Ritter, Jason Schwartzman, Terence Stamp.
Walter Keane became a worldwide celebrity and talk show fixture in the 1950s after he pioneered the mass production of prints of big-eyed kids, and used his marketing savvy to sell them cheaply. Unfortunately, he claimed to be the artist. That role was played by Margaret, his shy wife. The ruse broke up their marriage and led to a divorce and a dramatic courtroom battle to prove authorship of the paintings.
MPAA Rating: PG-13; for thematic elements and brief strong language.
DVD, NTSC region 1, anamorphic widescreen (1.78:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
In English or dubbed Spanish; optional Spanish subtitles and English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).