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Summary: I Wish I Were Big
Review: What would you do if you are a young boy, and suddenly turns into an adult? In this movie ¡°Big,¡± Josh has the experience of being an adult. Josh Baskin (Tom Hanks) was a 13 year old boy, one day he makes a wish in a Zoltar machine at the carnival. He wishes he were big, the next morning when he woke up his wish came true, and he became an adult of 30 years old.
Josh ran away from home with his friends help Billy (Jared Rushton), they try to find the Zoltar and make another wish that turn him back into a kid. He live in a hotel With shootings going on in the street, sometimes Josh feel very scare of living there, because in his mind he still a very young boy. Before he find the Zoltar machine he lads on a toys company, and he became the Vise President of the development. In the company, he makes many jokes, for example, one time there¡¯s a meeting of turning the building into a robot, but Josh didn¡¯t know anything about it so he just say ¡°I didn¡¯t get it¡±, and he says why don¡¯t you turn the robot into a bug. Even Josh looks like an adult, but he still thinking things like a young boy.
In the company, he discover the advantage of been an adult, he has freedom, money and lots of toys in his house. The boss of the company realy like Josh, and they both play with Piano in the Fao Schwarz. In the same time he falls in love with the company worker Susan. The more Josh experiences being an adult, the more he wants back of childhood. A few days later, his best friend Billy came with the news of where he could find the Zoltar machine. He was not very happy with the news, even he wants to turn back to a kid, but now he has Susan. Finally, he¡¯ll make another wish with the Zoltar machine, he wish he were a kid and his wish granted again.
This movie ¡°Big¡± shows much happiness, but also sadness. The costumes of this movie fashion in that time, but women are not dressing very sexy in that time already. In the party all mans wearing tux and women dress very nicely, but Josh was the only one who dresses very special, and is different from all others. His dress looks cute from the party and I think that he don¡¯t really know what to dress, because that¡¯s the first time he went to those big party with all adults.
Tom Hanks was perfect that when he act as kid in a mans body, he act really like a kid even he has an adult look. For example, when he live in the hotel, he heard shootings going on in the street he was very scare and cry in his pillow calling his mom. That really make looks like a little kid when they are missing there mother.
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Summary: Best comic role for Tom Hanks
Review: "Big" is one of the best films that Tom Hanks, but I can't place over "Forrest Gump", but it comes pretty darn close. The story of Josh Baskin, an 11 year-old who wishes he was "big" at a carnival. He wakes up next morning and discovers that he's now older (30 years old). He can't do nothing about it when he freaks his mother out. His best friend, Billy (Jared Rushton)who becomes freaked out, too, at first, until he tries to help him, as he finds Josh a job at a toy company. He soon falls for co-worker Elizabeth Perkins. However as time goes by, Josh becomes unhappy and wants to be a boy again. This something you must see if you really enjoy Tom Hanks, who in my opinion is the best modern-day actor.
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Summary: Great comedy.
Review: "Big" is a funny movie and it is Tom Hanks at his very best. Josh Baskin (David Moscow), a young boy, made a wish to be big at the carnival, and when he woke up in the morning, he found out that he was an adult (Tom Hanks, Oscar-nominated). He and his best friend, Billy (Jared Rushton), go to New York to find a machine at the carnival, to make him go back into a kid. I have this movie on video, and I strongly recommend it.
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Summary: Perfect Date Movie
Review: "Big" is funny. Tom Hanks in "Big" is as funny as in Forrest Gump, as touching as "Sleepless in Seattle," and as goofy as "Tuner and Hooch." You see the beginnings of the star of "Castaway," "Apollo 13," and "Catch Me If You Can." Hanks took on a solid movie and made it a great one.The story is simple, based on classic plotlines that extend back through fairy tales. Josh, the boy, is bummed his life is dictated by his small size and young age. He is unexpectedly granted his wish to be 'big', which means 30 years old. He then faces the adventures of being a grown-up. Scenes from this movie are famous, including the FAO Schwarz toy store dance on the keyboard floor mat. It has everything a vaudeville skit would have, from music to dance to the mix of an old and young man. It works incredibly well. Chopsticks has never been as entertaining. Josh becomes by serendipity the VP of toy development. Despite his immaturity, the owner feels Josh is tuned into the pulse of youth, unlike the lackeys cranking out marketing reports. His colleagues become jealous of his fast rise and unsuccessfully try to root him out. One of those trying to learn his game is Susan, but he wins her over in a confusing escapade of love. The movie is an overall pile of fun, but lacks in a few areas. It is dated, very stuck in the 1980s. That is tolerable. Had Josh been kidnapped, why wasn't his boyhood friend interviewed by police? Why didn't Josh ever confide in Susan while they fell in love? A number of other unanswered questions develop at the end dealing with his job, his apartment, his bank account. Even though I have questions, the movie is still a keeper. It is funny, makes strong statements about good parenting, and has a charm only Tom Hanks could bring. Good, clean fun... a perfect date movie. Anthony Trendl
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Summary: A Keeper
Review: "Big" is one of those movies you want to keep in your DVD Collection -- especially if you have a family. The story is well-told and the performances top notch. If there is such a thing as a flawless movie, then "Big" is it. I will warn you, though, that the film includes some profanity, such as the f-word, b...s..., a-hole, etc. I am not a fuddy-duddy, but I am trying to raise my children to be fuddy-duddies! If you show this wonderful, classic film to kids, be prepared to react to the language. Better yet, watch it without your kids!
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Summary: An entertaining movie about being a grownup
Review: "Big" is the story of a kid , Josh (Tom Hanks) who wishes he was an adult, and a wizard machine at a carnival grants his wish, and boom, he's an adult. Soon he's finding out a lot of things about being an adult such as having a relationship with Susan (Elizabeth Perkins), and working for a living. Will Josh enjoy being a grownup and want to stay that way and change his whole life? Or will be miss being a kid and want to turn back into a kid? That's what makes this movie so interesting is watching Josh try to be a grownup, and wonder whether he'll decide to be a grownup or a kid. Tom Hanks, like in just about all of his movies, does a great job in this one. It's funny and it's entertaining the whole way through. I recommend "Big" to anybody who likes good movies.
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Summary: The best of the body swap films...
Review: ... and there's no body swapping in it!
This film has aged really well; the comedy and dialogue is really sharp, the acting is believable and there's never a dull moment. Instead of going over the story, I want to quote what screenwriting legend, Robert McKee wrote about the film which rings true; "At the crisis, Josh [Tom Hanks] faces irreconcilable goods; an adult life with a fulfilling career and the woman he loves verus a return to adolescence. He makes the mature choice to have his childhood expressing with fine irony that he at last became 'big'. For he and we sense that the key to maturity is to have had a complete childhood. But becuase life has short-changed so many of us in youth, we live, to one degree or another, in a false sense of maturity. BIG is a very wise film."
Sure the toys have changed and yes, Billy Idol is tied to the soundtrack but the message still remains the same. This should be required viewing for all families.
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Summary: Be Careful What You Wish For--You Just Might Get Your Wish!
Review: A 12 year old boy wishes to be grown, then wakes the next morning in the body of a 30 year old man (played by Tom Hanks). Only the boy's best friend is in on the "secret", and together they go on a "big" adventure, making the best of this "dream-come-true". There is, of course, romance involved, and soon the "kid" feels lost in the role of the "big guy". Naturally there is a happy ending. The moral of the story: Be glad to be who you are; if you're a kid, you'll grow up soon enough, no rush! -- This is a sweet film, probably even more enjoyable to pre-teens.
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Summary: An Classic Tom Hanks Comedy.
Review: A 13 Year Old Boy (David Moscow) goes One Night to a Creaky Amusement-Park, Fortune-Telling Machine to make him-BIG. But One Morning, he`s wakes up in a Body of a 32 Year Old Man (Tom Hanks), he`s runs away from Home to find the Fortune-Telling Machine but He ables to land Himself in a Toy Company in New York City and he falls in love with a Spunky Assisant (Elizabeth Perkins). Directed by Penny Marshall (A League of Thier Own, Riding in Cars with Boys) made a Clever Fantasy Comedy, thanks to Tom Hanks Oscar-Nominated Wonderful Performance and an Intelligent Screenplay by Gary Ross (Plesantville) and Anne Spielberg (Steven Spielberg`s Sister) made this Film Delightful (The Screenplay was Oscar Nominated). The Film also has a Fine Supporting Cast, Including:Robert Loggia, John Heard and Jared Rushton. This was One of the Highest Grossing Films of 1988. This is a Charming One. Grade:A-.
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Summary: A Review Haiku by Todd Marrone
Review: A brilliant movie
that may not have worked as well
with anyone else.
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