Big Eyes (2014)

The screenplay for Big Eyes, by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (Ed Wood, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Man on the Moon), proceeds on the assumption that viewers are more interested in latter-day restitution than in Hitchcock’s type of maladjusted compulsion. To that end, the filmmakers focus on the artist Margaret Keane (Amy Adams), creator of the 1960s paintings featuring sad, big-eyed children, over her striving husband, Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz), who for years compelled Margaret to produce in secret the lucrative paintings he claimed were his. Read the full review here.