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Summary: My favorite movie from the 80's
Review: In a decade which everyone could do without (If George Bush wasn't president, we know Bush Jr. wouldn't be), Big came along and we got a glimpse of the future cinema which is yet to occur. Tom Hanks is an awsome actor and the script was amazing. I won't ever let what happened to him happen to me, only because I'm 18. But, if I was 12 I'd do everything he did and of course get Sadaam so that we wouldn't have the Stupid War. If you don't listen to me amuse myself than just get this movie. If you do, you can read my other reviews.
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Summary: I wish I were Big
Review: Big is a great comic fantasy starring one of today's biggest stars Tom Hanks. BIg is a supurb film that should be treasured for a long time. Hanks is fantasic as Josh Baskin. Big is about a 13 year old boy that wishes he was big, this all happened at a carnival one night where he couldn't get on a ride that requred a height limit. So he goes to a machine that has a look of a devil named Zoltar and he wishes his wish and the dream came true the next morning. The movie has its moments were he's trying to get a job and doesn't know his social scurity number and uses his friend's locker combo as the number. Also the famous scene were he's playing chopsticks with his manager{Robert Loggia} on a Saturaday morning at FAO Schartz. There's also some touching moments in this movie were he's walking and he sees his girlfriend in school and a class photo being taken, that was a bit touching. Also when he's trying to say goodbye to his girlfriend {Elizabeth Perkins} that he works with. If you like comedy, fantasy and romance this is the movie for you. THe DVD is not that bad it has a few production notes and a theatrical trailer.
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Summary: good story
Review: I fell in love in Tom Hanks over this movie. When I went to NYC a few years ago I went to FAO just to jump on the piano keyboard. Unforunately they didn't have it anymore. :( Great story I suggest this to everyone!
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: I love the movie Big starring Tom Hanks who just received and honorary award from AFI. This movie is about a boy who wants to grow up and then realizes that adulthood isn't as great as he thinks it is. My favorite scene is when he goes back to the New Jersey town and sees kids having fun and having their class picture done. It made me really want to be that age again of 13. This movie was released the 3rd of June 1988 and it grossed 114 million dollars. This movie is funny and has good jokes and how all of us want to be thirteen again and how being a kid isn't so bad as you think it is.
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Summary: Big: Growth is not Just a Physical Stage
Review: Every kid has dreams of what it would be like to grow up. Usually these thoughts revolve around the material things in life, most of which include adult-type possessions like money, girls, and cars. In director Penny Marshall's BIG, Tom Hanks gives an eminently believable performance as a 13 year old boy who makes the full circle from boy to man and back to boy. Although the audience has great fun with the many truly funny scenes, the real charm of the film is not the humor of a fish out of water but the growth of a boy who has a glimpse of what it is to be a man and yet can possess the wisdom to recognize that he is not ready to permanently stay an adult if it means losing the experience that should have accompanied that growth.
The youth Josh Baskin (David Moscow) makes a wish to be an adult at one of those carny magic fortune teller machines. Right away the audience is swooped into one of two realms: the benign universe of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE or the more malignant one of the TWILIGHT ZONE where William Shatner is fed life- altering decisions by a machine that could be a clone of this one. But BIG is a sweet comedy and the audience can sense that there will indeed be comic complexities caused by Josh's getting his wish in a literal way that provides unexpected consequences.
Josh, now played by Tom Hanks, uses his charm, his youth, his zest for things juvenile to land an adult job. The core of the comedy revolves around a succession of scenes that requires a delicate balancing act for Hanks. He must try to act like an adult but still retain the mannerisms of a child. The best scenes in which he accomplishes this include the dancing on the piano scene with Robert Loggia and the more adult relationship he forges with Elizabeth Perkins, who falls for the child that she sees in the man. No one else in Hollywood could have pulled this off.
Josh builds a life as an adult. He has all the 'toys' that he thought all adults did, but inwardly his child rebels, causing him to want to experience life but not on the cheap. Experience, he learns, is dear, and it is not enough for others to give him credit for accomplishments that they presume is the result of a more natural emotional and physical accumulation of experience. Rather, he learns that life is sort of like those goofy electronic make-up-your-life-as-you-go toys that he developed as a marketing whiz. You can push a button and get the desired result, but once having done so, the reality on the screen does not match the reality in the heart. And for the young Josh or the old Josh or the audience, this is a very adult lesson indeed.
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Summary: We need a Fullscreen DVD of "Big" like a hole in the head
Review: The original DVD release of "Big" was rather disappointing. No extras, non-anamorphic video, and a weak 2.0 Dolby Surround track. Certainly this 1988 gem of a film (which, in my opinion, is Tom Hanks' best live-action work to date) deserves better treatment. With all the films that Fox has given wonderful DVD treatment to, such as Die Hard, M*A*S*H, and Speed, I'm certain they could do a wonderful Special Edition DVD for "Big". But instead, we get a Full Screen rehash of the lame original disc, which has been out now for three years. This puts the new DVD edition a notch further below the subpar initial widescreen disc. Please, Fox, give "Big" the Special Edition DVD it deserves! I'm talking audio commentary with Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, and Penny Marshall; cast & crew bios; original trailer and TV ads; anamorphic widescreen and DD 5.1; the AMC "Backstory" special; the "Big" segment from the 2002 AFI Lifetime Achievement Award Tom Hanks special; deleted scenes & outtakes; a documentary; production notes. That would be the ideal DVD release for this classic movie. Make it a 2-disc Five Star Collection if you must, but please devote your energies to giving this film the DVD treatment it deserves, which is not a Full Screen, barebones disc.
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Summary: Superb FILM!!!
Review: This has to be one of the greatest films all of all times,EVER!!
Tom Hanks did an exellent job playing a young boy(Joshua "Josh" Baskins) trapped in a grown mans' body. A child trying to make it in a rough world, living as an adult,but only in the flesh.
The writing was excellent! The entire casts' acting was superb! Penny Marshall has directed a true gem that has been a classic for about 14 years now, and will remain a classic for decades to come.
Living in New York as I do, It was really fun to know that the area where Josh met up with the fortune teller machine was shot on location at Rye Playland about 40 minutes driving time from where I live(pretty cool, huh?)I go in that area at times just to rekindle the movie shot(I'm pathetic,right?)
One of the funniest movie scences I can remember is when his (somewhat) love interest,Susan (played beautifully by Elizabeth perkins) tries to get romantic with Josh, but all he seems to care about is jumping on the trampling and seeing who gets to sleep on the TOP bunk.(His young mind cannot comprehend what she means when she says she wants to "SLEEP" with him). Those are classic "BIG" moments, along with him playing the gaint Step-On Keyboard at FAO Schwarz Toy Store that will never leave my memory!It was very interesting seeing Tom Hanks show his boyish side; that innocent charm that very few actors could have probably pulled off so well. I also like the moral to the story as well, JUST LIKE THEY SAY: "Be careful what you wish for,'cause you may get it". Every wish comes with a price. There's no such thing as a perfect wish.
(You'll know what I mean if you haven't seen the film yet). If you haven't seen this extraordinary movie yet, then please do yourself a favor and buy it. Or at least rent it first,then I'll guarantee you will purchase this movie to share with your family and friends for years to come.
P.S. I think Tom Hanks was perfect for the part of Josh,but do you think anybody else could have done a good job as well? What about Bill Murray or Robin Williams? What do you think? Well...now that i think about it, with Tom Hanks playing the Award winning role,and seeing how well it was played, I don't think I'd have it any other way. -- PEACE.
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Summary: Wonderful Movie
Review: Tom Hanks makes a wonderful kid! Shows that being a kid, or being an adult, both have their drawbacks. I LOVED this movie!!
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Summary: Your Wish is Granted
Review: BIG is that rare exception of a film. A commercial film that delivers eloquently and truthfully. Much of the films success rides on the much heralded performance by Tom Hanks. But, I'll go on and say Penny Marshall's direction helped make Hanks' role applicable. In one of the most poignant scenes in recent memory, 13 year old Josh Baskin (Hanks) spends an evening alone in a rundown, sleazy hotel in Manhattan. With shootings going on in the street and foreigners using the telephone outside the door, Hanks pulls all the stops out and cries himself to bed in a fetal position. Another major asset to the film is the wonderful performance by Elizabeth Perkins. She plays Josh's adorable girlfriend who mistakes his youth as maturity. As does his boss, Robert Loggia in a wonderful performance. He and Tom play chopsticks on an enormous piano keyboard in the extremely memorable signature scene. The film is filled with clever nuances and only occasionally does it sell out. At the peak of his 'adult' success, Josh is seen watching other 13 year olds getting their class photographs done. This scene alone can make the viewer long for innocence of their own. A wonderful film. the DVD has a nice widescreen transfer and a good audio track. Written by Gary Ross (Dave) and Steven Spielbergs sister, Anne.
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Summary: Average movie full of laughter
Review: I saw this movie years ago when it first came out in 1990. It was a great movie for the whole family to watch. Full of love, laughter.
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