The Big Picture

Still mostly-grounded student movie contest winner Nick (Kevin Bacon, with Emily Longstreth his girlfriend Susan) at his first Hollywood party, spooked by the ideas of his host and producer Allan (J.T. Walsh), who introduces his wife (Fran Drescher) and dishy actress Gretchen (Teri Hatcher in her first movie), Victor Steinbach deadpanning as the famous cinematographer, in The Big Picture, 1989.

First appearance in Martin Short’s storied (and wholly un-credited) performance as Hollywood agent Neil Sussman, young Scott Coffey the waiter, as contest-winning film student and director Nick (Kevin Bacon) takes his first lunch, his car a rare Nash Metropolitan, in director Christopher Guest’s first feature The Big Picture, 1989.

Ending director Christopher Guest’s credits and incorporating uncredited Eddie Albert as the MC and two of the (highly satirical) student films up for awards at the (fictional) National Film Institute, (the first with cameos by Elliott Gould, June Lockhart, Roddy McDowall and Stephen Collins) Kevin Bacon (as nominee Nick, with girlfriend Emily Longstreth) in the audience, Jason Gould, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Dan Schneider his fellows, in The Big Picture, 1989.