Big Eyes

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You can watch Big Eyes (2014) on Kanopy with a participating library card, rent on Apple TV+, or buy on Apple TV+.

In the late 1950s and early '60s, artist Walter Keane achieves unbelievable fame and success with portraits of saucer-eyed waifs. However, no one realizes that his wife, Margaret, is the real painter behind the brush. Although Margaret is horrified to learn that Walter is passing off her work as his own, she is too meek to protest too loudly. It isn't until the Keanes' marriage comes to an end and a lawsuit follows that the truth finally comes to light.

Mid-century kitsch meets a stifling domestic struggle as wide-eyed portraits become a lucrative fraud. While the man basks in the limelight, the true artist struggles to reclaim her identity from his suffocating shadow.

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