Big Eyes

Big Eyes is a dramatic biopic by celebrated filmmaker Tim Burton. Academy Award nominated Amy Adams stars as American artist Margaret Keane, with Academy Award winning actor Christoph Waltz supporting as Keane’s then-husband, Walter.

BIG EYES tells the outrageous true story of one of the most epic art frauds in history. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, painter Walter Keane had reached success beyond belief, revolutionizing the commercialization of popular art with his enigmatic paintings of waifs with big eyes. The bizarre and shocking truth would eventually be discovered though: Walter’s works were actually not created by him at all, but by his wife Margaret. The Keanes, it seemed, had been living a colossal lie that had fooled the entire world. A tale too incredible to be fiction, BIG EYES centers on Margaret’s awakening as an artist, the phenomenal success of her paintings, and her tumultuous relationship with her husband, who was catapulted to international fame while taking credit for her work.

The screenplay was penned by writing partners Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski who are very familiar with biopics having written the script for Man On the Moon and The People Vs. Larry Flynt, while producing Auto Focus. When asked why Margaret and Walter Keane’s story was one they wanted to tell, Karaszewski said, “Scott and I are very attracted to these sorts of biographies of people who you initially didn’t think were important and who were marginalized.”

Big Eyes is rated PG.

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