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Posted: 10/19/02
© 2002 Filmmonthly.com
The Big Time (2002) The Big Time premieres Sunday, October 20, 2002 at |
 In a fast-paced drama set to air October 20, 2002, TNT presents The Big Time. The Big Time is set in Manhattan in 1948 during the early days of a budding new craze in America called television. Executive produced by Carol Flint and John Wells whose company John Wells Productions also co-produced The Big Time in association with Warner Bros. Television.Written by Carol Flint (Earth 2), the drama unfolds in a television station as they attempt to replace radio as the form of entertainment and carve their niche in the TV industry with the likes of NBC by using cutting edge methods created by the station's owner Doc played by Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest). As a young television station competing for big time endorsements against the big time stations, the Empire television station has one chance to bridge the gap between radio listeners and TV viewers, secure ad contracts that guareentees a next paycheck, as well as break the mold by hiring a colored jazz band. Molly Ringwald (Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club) plays Marion Powers the blonde, surprisingly business savvy bride only married days before to Doc and sees the potential that TV has to offer the new world and doesn't hesitate to cross the barriers that tend to inhibit her husband from seeking the diamond in the rough.
The multi-talented cast is rounded out with Shane Mikael Johnson (Behind Enemy Lines) playing Timothy Wilkison, the love him and hate him junior ad agent aiming to create and direct programming and lastly, Michael B. Silver (The X- Files, Lifetime's For The People) with his role of Walt Kaplan, the fair-minded floor managers with his own aspirations to direct. Together this cast must pull off the almost impossible on the air as well as off by producing an unforgettable show and forge family-like bonds with one another.
It's hard to find an original movie to watch these days or even a feel good movie that really makes you feel good, but TNT has managed to come up with one in The Big Time. Definitely a movie to watch when it premiers. Now once more for the boss man: The Big Time premieres Sunday, October 20, 2002 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on Turner Network Television (TNT). Got a problem? Email us at filmmonthly@hotmail.com |
Christina Hendricks plays Audrey Drummond (Beggers and Choosers, The Court) and is the Midwest town girl who decides to follow her dreams and join the emerging television network while waiting on her fiancé to join her. The Colonel played by Dylan Baker (Road to Perdition, Random Hearts, The Practice) is the devoted producer and vice president of programming committed to the impending success of the network. Sharif Atkins plays Joe Royal (ER, Arli$$), a young twenty-ish piano player who is unafraid to go for his goals and put his extremely talented jazz quintet on the map regardless of the racial divides of society.
And now that I've done all the logistics of my review i.e. naming the cast and crew and writing The Big Time once or twice (airs Sunday October 20 at 8 p.m. ET/PT) just how they like it, I can tell you what I really think of The Big Time. So here goes...I liked it. No seriously, I really did like the movie. I thought it was refreshing and I thought it was well written and well directed. The characters were endearing and the storyline could easily be followed and was very believable.