One of Hollywood's all-time most appealing magic realist fantasies. [Blu-ray]
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05/20/09
Big (1988)
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Reviews Counted:51
Fresh:49
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.9/10
Synopsis: A 13-year-old boy named Josh wants, more than anything else, to be "big". And when he makes a wish on a carnival wishing booth his dreams come true: he transposes into the body of a 35 year old man... [More]
Starring: Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, David Moscow, Robert Loggia
Director: Penny Marshall
Reviews for Big
As far as the movie's message is considered -- if only grown-ups could be more like kids -- Jerry Lewis did an infinitely better job of plugging it in the 50s.
04/01/08
The best of the spate of body-switching films in the late 80s.
04/01/08
Unspools with enjoyable genuineness and ingenuity.
04/01/08
Top CriticOnce in a blue moon, there are moments of perfect casting that virtually ensure a movie is going to be a piece of class. And that's what you've got here.
04/01/08
Hanks so convincingly played a grown-up with a 12-year-old mind that he transformed instantly in the public eye from a run-of-the-mill comedy star to a respected actor with limitless potential.
06/03/07
It touched me
05/18/07
The picture still stands proud as a comedy easy chair of sorts, but even more vividly as Tom Hanks's finest hour as an actor.
05/07/07
Marshall, Hanks, and his co-stars seldom put a foot wrong.
06/24/06
It is...one of those films that simply cannot be touched, no matter how one pokes and prods at its lapses in logic.
01/19/06
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10/09/05
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09/20/05
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06/29/05
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05/06/05
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04/13/05
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01/24/05
Great performance by Hanks makes this a winner.
01/19/05
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01/19/05
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11/04/04
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10/27/04
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