The Big White is a 2005 black comedy picture directed by Mark Mylod starring Robin Williams, Holly Hunter, Giovanni Ribisi, Woody Harrelson, Tim Blake Nelson, W. Earl Brown and Alison Lohman. A body left in a dumpster by Mafia hitmen is discovered by financially troubled travel agent Paul Barnell . Heavily in debt and attempting to find a cure for his wife's 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. Local police are convinced, but a promotion-hungry insurance... agent is not. The Mafia hitmen are also in search of the corpse for proof to collect their payment. They take Paul's wife hostage to ensure that they will get the body. Paul stays in his brother's cottage. Paul's missing brother Raymond returns home, beats him, and demands a portion of the insurance money. By suggesting the insurance agent has assaulted him, Paul speeds up the delivery of the million dollar insurance payment. He has the body exhumed and agrees to exchange it and a portion of the money for his wife.
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| Release date: | March 24, 2006 |
| Directed by: | Mark Mylod |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 100 Minutes |
| Producer: | Michael Birnbaum, John Schimmel, Andreas Schmid, Andreas Grosch, Kia Jam |
| Editor: | Julie Monroe |
| Screenplay by: | Collin Friesen |
| Estimated budget: | $18,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |