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Big
1988
In Penny Marshall's charming comedy, a 13-year-old boy named Josh (David Moscow) wants, more than anything else, to be "big." And when he makes a wish in a carnival booth, his dreams come true--he becomes a 30-year-old man (Tom Hanks), though his mind and spirit remain that of a child. Since he can't really go to school looking .. Read more
| Starring | Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, John Heard |
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| Director | Penny Marshall |
| Genres | Comedy |
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Big
In Penny Marshall's charming comedy, a 13-year-old boy named Josh (David Moscow) wants, more than anything else, to be "big." And when he makes a wish in a carnival booth, his dreams come true--he becomes a 30-year-old man (Tom Hanks), though his mind and spirit remain that of a child. Since he can't really go to school looking like an adult, and his mother doesn't know him in his new guise, Josh heads with his pal Billy (Jared Rushton) to New York, where they proceed to goof off, play around, and act like the kids they are. But when Billy leaves, Josh is subjected to the encroaching needs and responsibilities of adulthood, and he quickly discovers both the pleasures and the problems of being grown-up.
| Starring | Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, John Heard, Jared Rushton, David Moscow, Mercedes Ruehl, James Eckhouse, Jon Lovitz, Josh Clark, Samantha Larkin, Rockets Redglare, Tracy Reiner, Jamie Tirelli |
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| Director | Penny Marshall |
| Studio | 20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 40 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Eighties Greats |
| Genres | Comedy |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish |
| Released | DVD: 13 Oct 2003 Production year: 1988 |
| Format | DVD |
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Tom Hanks, winner of consecutive Oscars for best actor for his roles in 1993's Philadelphia and the following year's Forrest Gump, only received an Oscar nomination for this, one of his finest performances to date. He plays a 12-year-old boy transplanted by a carnival wishing contraption into a man's body, and his portrayal of a simple but sincere guy in a cynical world foreshadows his role as Gump. Big may well be a formula fantasy movie, but Penny Marshall's polished direction combined with Hanks's gauche charm make it the best of the spate of body-swap movies turned out by Hollywood in the late 1980s.
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It's no fun being in your early teens, especially if you're none too tall. So thinks Josh Baskin, having been denied a... read more on Time Out
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Big Tom Hanks
Big is a 1988 comedy film about a teenage boy who is aged to adulthood by a magical fortune-telling machine.A hit with the kids, it’s just a great family comedy.
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Big Tom Hanks
Big is a 1988 comedy film about a teenage boy who is aged to adulthood by a magical fortune-telling machine.A hit with the kids, it’s just a great family comedy.
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