The Big White

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The Big White
Promotional poster for The Big White
Directed by	Mark Mylod
Produced by	Michael Birnbaum, Kia Jam, John Schimmel, Andreas Schmid, Andreas Grosch
Written by	Collin Friesen
Starring	Robin Williams, Holly Hunter, Giovanni Ribisi, Alison Lohman, Tim Nelson, Woody Harrelson
Editing by	Julie Monroe
Distributed by	Momentum Pictures
Release date(s)	March 24, 2006
Running time	100 min.
Language	English
Budget	$18,000,000 (estimated)
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The Big White is a 2005 black comedy picture directed by Mark Mylod starring Robin Williams, Holly Hunter and Woody Harrelson.

[edit] Plot

Paul Barnell (Williams), a travel agent, is in trouble. Saddled with a wife Margaret (Hunter) who claims to be struggling with Tourette syndrome and unable to convince ambitious insurance company agent Ted (Giovanni Ribisi) to pay off the one-million-dollar claim on his brother, who has been missing for five years, Paul's debts are mounting as fast as his life is crumbling. When Paul discovers the corpse of a nameless man who ended up on the wrong side of the mob, desperation drives him to stage a grisly death scene and make it look as if his brother has suffered a horrible fate. Though the local police force is easily taken by Paul's elaborate ruse, it's going to take a little more convincing before Ted is willing to sign off on the hefty insurance payment. Add in two bumbling hitmen (Tim Blake Nelson and W. Earl Brown) and Paul's real brother (Woody Harrelson), a lowlife, it's only going to get worse for Paul, who finds the plan isn't as easy as it should have been.

[edit] Filmed

The movie was shot in Winnipeg, with additional photography in the Yukon, Alaska, and New Zealand (the latter for aerial photography used in the opening moments of the film).

[edit] Posters