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It is about the relationship between American artist Margaret Keane and her second husband, Walter Keane , who, in the s and s, took credit for Margaret's phenomenally popular paintings of people with big eyes. The film had its world premiere in New York City on December 15, , [ 4 ] and was released in the U. In , Margaret Ulbrich leaves her then-husband and takes her young daughter Jane to North Beach , San Francisco , where she gets a job painting illustrations at a furniture factory.

While doing portraits at an outdoor art show, she meets Walter Keane , who sells paintings of Parisian street scenes but makes his money in real estate. They soon become close friends. Margaret is distraught when her ex-husband, Jane's father, asks for custody of Jane as part of the divorce settlement.

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Walter proposes, and they marry and honeymoon in Hawaii. She retains custody of Jane. Unable to get his or Margaret's paintings into a fine art gallery, Walter convinces Enrico Banducci , the owner of a popular jazz club , to rent him some wall space to exhibit their work. He is frustrated when the designated space is in the back by the bathrooms.

He fights with Banducci and puts the man's head through one of Margaret's canvases. This becomes a front-page story in a local newspaper, which packs the club with people curious to see the art that made grown men fight. Dick Nolan, a celebrity gossip columnist, wants to know more about the artwork but proceeds to ask about Margaret's paintings of young girls with big eyes.

Walter goes along with the misunderstanding, failing to clarify that they are Margaret's creations. Afterward, he shows Margaret how much money he made selling her work and suggests they team up, with her staying at home painting and him taking credit and handling publicity and sales.