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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: 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: 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: 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: BIG Movie
Review: Big-1988
100mins/Colour
Tom Hanks
Elizabeth Perkins
Robert Loggia
John Heard The wonderfully versatile Tom Hanks stars as Josh Baskin, a 12 year old boy who makes a wish on a carnival wishing machine. His wish is to be 'BIG'....and to his amazement wakes up the next morning with the body of a 30 year old. Confused and frightened at being thrust into the adult world, Josh (with the help of his best friend) runs away to New York, where by sheer luck he lands a job in a Toy company. There he discovers the advantages of being big: freedom,money,unlimited toys and junk food. But he's not prepared for what happens when he attracts sexy co-worker-chic, ambitious and predatory Susan Lawrence. Josh is torn between the freedom of being an adult (with a 12 year old brain)and the love and security of his homelife. BIG is great entertainment, it is often touching but always BIG on laughs!
Written by coproducers Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg.Tom Hanks' 11th film. BIG was later a broadway musical.
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Summary: Pure fun!
Review: Great movie. Penny Marshall's directing is wonderful. Tom Hanks is perfect as the child/adult. He plays it with subtlety. He could have hammed it up but showed restraint, evidencing the child inside the adult without being infantile. His conflicts between his real and his apparent age were handled well. The supporting cast did a great job. David Moscow was excellent as the young Josh and could well have been a young Hanks. Mercedes Ruehl as his mother who suddenly is confronted with this adult stranger doesn't have much but does it well. Robert Loggia as the toy company boss who grows fond of the adult Josh does a great job of evidencing the little boy inside him. Elizabeth Perkins is beautiful and a great, albeit confused, love interest for the adult Josh. Jared Rushton is a perfect side-kick to the now "big" and money-earning Josh. There were some great scenes like when Josh the adult receives his first paycheck and they blow it on junk food and silly string. Later that evening when Billy leaves and Josh is left alone in a flop house amid the frightening sounds of the city, Hanks handles this perfectly. The move into the loft with all the toys was a child's dream. Then there's the tuxedo, the eating of the salad corn, his night with Susan (Elizabeth Perkins), the "Heart and Soul" duet on the giant piano with Robert Loggia. On and on the great moments. And the ending was poignant. One would have to be truly jaded to not find enjoyment in this movie. Hanks deserved all the nominations for Best Actor and should have collected on more.
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Summary: A return to a classic.
Review: I just got this movie on DVD for Christmas and was excited. I loved this movie as a kid and immediately popped it in. My family even sat down to watch it. We all laughed so hard. Tom Hanks shines in this movie. I honestly think it is one of his best. He is so believable as kid who is now a grown-up. I actually felt bad for the lady who falls in love with him. When in Chiacago I played on the piano and watching it on my televison was actually fun.
If it has been a long time or if you may have never seen this movie. I think it is time. It will not disappoint you and it is even something you can watch with the family. That is hard to do these days!
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Summary: Purhaps THE Defining Moment in Hanks' Career
Review: In 1980 Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari came to the small screen in the sitcom Bosom Buddies and the rest is history. For Hanks anyway. Haven't seen Scolari since Newhart and I'm not complaining. Bosom Buddies only ran for three seasons but Hanks starred in the smash hit Splash in 1984 and his star only rose from there. As he matured throughout the 80's, it became clear that Hanks wasn't going to stand pat with dumb little pratfall comedies like The Money Pit. Little by little his comedies crept away from the silliness and into the drama. Big, in retrospect, seems like a defining moment in Hanks' career. It's the first time Hanks is asked to carry a big budget sink or swim flick all his own. There's plenty of comedy here, of course, but there are underlying themes of loss and fear that had been touched on in some of his earlier smaller movies but never in a big buget blockbuster type flick and not so pervasively. This sense of the inherent sadness and uncertainty of life has come to dominate Hanks' flick. Movies like Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Castaway, and, especially, Philadelphia are quite grim in thier life is suffering seriousness. The Hanks in earlier fare like Splash and Volunteers contrasts sharply with the turn of the millenium Hanks. Big is a must watch for any Hanks fans.
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Summary: It can't get any better than this
Review: Oh boy do I love this movie. I'm so glad to hear it's going to come out on DVD (I'm pre-ordering now). I really doubt that Hollywood can make romantic comedies this good any more. Well, hopefully I'm wrong, but quite honestly, I haven't seen any better union since "Big" -- a screenplay so well written, a director so creative (as Penny Marshall), an actor so talented (as Tom Hanks), an actress so lovely (as Elizabeth Perkins), plus a perfect supporting cast (Robert Loggia, Jon Lovitz, Mercedes Ruehl...) Forgive me for being a bit cynical here, but movies like this have become so rare these days, just like happy marriages.
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