A drama about the awakening of the painter Margaret Keane, her phenomenal success in the 1950s, and the subsequent legal difficulties she had with her husband, who claimed credit for her works in the 1960s.
As he did with Ed Wood, director Tim Burton takes a kitschy slice of 20th-century pop culture - the woman who painted children with huge eyes and the husband who took credit for them - and turns it into a special film. This is the kind of movie that has you smiling nearly all the way throughout at the sheer inspired madness of it all. Stars Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz. - Three and a half stars