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The Big White is a american film of genre Drama directed by Mark Mylod released in USA on 3 december 2005 with Robin Williams
The Big White (2005)
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Add to a movie listThe Big White is a 2005 film directed by Mark Mylod starring Robin Williams, Holly Hunter, Giovanni Ribisi, Woody Harrelson, Tim Blake Nelson, W. Earl Brown and Alison Lohman.
In a podcast interview with Marc Maron in 2010, Williams admitted that during filming, he started drinking again after 20 years of sobriety. This would lead to a stint in rehab in 2006.
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Travel agent Paul Barnell (Robin Williams) finds a body in a dumpster that, unbeknownst to him, was left there by Mafia hitmen. Heavily in debt and attempting to find a cure for his wife Margaret's (Holly Hunter) apparent Tourette Syndrome, he stages a disfiguring animal attack with the body in order to cash in his missing brother's life-insurance policy, for which a corpse is required.Actors
Robin Williams
(Paul Barnell)
Holly Hunter
(Margaret Barnell)
Giovanni Ribisi
(Ted)
Alison Lohman
(Tiffany)
W. Earl Brown
(Jimbo)
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