Big Fish is a 2003 American fantasy drama film directed by Tim Burton, and based on the 1998 novel Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions by Daniel Wallace.[2] The film stars Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter, Alison Lohman, Robert Guillaume, Marion Cotillard, Steve Buscemi, and Danny DeVito. The film tells the story of a frustrated son who tries to distinguish fact from fiction in the life of his father, a teller of tall tales.
Lobby Cards are promotional photographs printed on cardstock paper. They were meant to be displayed in the massive lobbies of movie palaces before the film came out.
Lobby cards fall into the broad collectible category of 'paper ephemera'. Paper ephemera encompasses anything printed on paper and intended for the trashcan. And unlike a lot of ephemeral collectibles, Lobby Cards died out before the collector market really took off.
This means that the supply never had a chance to get over-saturated. Even genuine one sheet movie posters tend to be over-printed these days! This means that lobby cards remain highly collectible to this day.