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Summary: Great Great Great Great Great Great
Review: There are only so many movies that can compare to Big because of it's unique storyline and dialouge the idea of one day being twelve then overnight turning into a thrity something year old and getting the best job in the world is like every kids dream come true and that it happens at a carnival just sort of made me stay away from carnivals and the Zoltar machine for the rest of my natural born life. The best thing about Big is that it speaks to people of all ages not just to kids and not just to adults no matter how silly it becomes the adults will still watch it and laugh and incidentely at the same time as the kids not at the scenes that have hidden meaning just for the adults to understand. However it is a good thing that Big did well because if you call a movie Big and it doesn't do well than that is just the worst thing that could possibly happen.
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Summary: i wish
Review: Don't we all have that wish as a kid ? TO LIVE LIFE AS A GROWN UP! Well this kid gets his wish. He gets a house, a job and other grown up responsibilities but... he still has the mind of a ten year old. Very funny and unique film.
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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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Summary: BIG is Tom Hanks at his best
Review: I've had this movie (on VHS) since it was first released, and its on my Movies I Can't Stop Watching list. Tom Hanks portrays a 13 year old boy, Josh, who wakes up in the body of a 30 year old man after wishing he were bigger after not being allowed on a carnival ride and being made fun of by a taller boy. Although this theme is not unique, nobody but Tom Hanks ever gets it quite right. Hanks obviously has not forgotten what it's like to be an adolescent boy, and the results are hilarious! His reactions to adult situations (a really aweful tux at a formal party, making gagging noises and spitting out caviar, playing with all the buttons in the limousine, thinking his workmate just wants to SLEEP when she asks to stay overnight and innocently replying,"Well, ok, but I get to be on top" - meaning the top of his bunkbed) never fail to send me into fits of laughter. On the more serious side, Hanks also poignantly portrays the fear and loneliness of a young boy suddenly thrust into the hostile environment of a trashy hotel (the only place he could afford, with the help of his best friend), where sirens, gunshots, and fights are happening right outside his door. Jared Rushton is perfectly cast as his best friend, and gets a good laugh of his own when he screams his bloody head off when first approached by the adult Josh, thinking he's a pervert bent on doing him harm.Great for anybody who remembers what it's like to be a child in a hurry to get bigger, and even for those who don't.
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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: Wonderful Film -- so/so DVD
Review: The only reason I bought this film was to finally be able to see BIG in its original widescreen version (lately, this is the only way I like to see films now, except for those old films that were not filmed in Cinemascope). Anyhow, the movie is wonderful and funny and very entertaining. I forgot how GOOD Tom Hanks is in this movie which could have very well been a bomb.
The DVD has nothing new to offer except for the original trailer and a few cast fimographies. I would have liked an audio commentary by Penny Marshall (this being, after all, the first movie directed by a woman to gross 100 million at the box office), or at least a "making of" feauturette (The internet movie database says that Marshall filmed the adult sequences with a young Josh first so that Hanks could see how a child would ineteract in his place).
Still, for the low price of this DVD, it is a bargain.
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Summary: Happy Feelgood movie
Review: This comedy with Tom hanks starring started out with alot of flash and bang, but after the first half of the movie, kind of lost it for me. Tom Hanks is of course a fine actor, and the supporting cast including Robert Loggia had alot of fun making this movie, but it truly lost steam near the end. Enjoy some laughs
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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: Tom Hanks at his best......
Review: Of all the movies I've seen with Tom Hanks I'd have to say this is one of his best roles and probrably my favorite. It really touched me I think I cried. And it is so hilarious at times I could'nt watch...hehe One of my favorite parts is when he's at his first party, I love his suit. Its quite hilarious, includes the corn bit. And after the party when he has that chick sleep over. Its very cute and funny. I love it. I mean sure this is a fantasy, but I think it perfectly illistrates what happens to us as adults as we grow out of childhood. How we lose alot of what may have been so special about us. And how we get so busy we have time for nothing but work. Or we choose not to. I think part of the reason it touched me so because I was working incredibly hard at the time and not doing anything but work just like Hanks charcter. Anything is that I actually believe Hanks really is a child trapped in the body of an older man. It really does seem like he is. I mean he really becomes this person. Not just acting but being them. And that my friend is what makes a GREAT actor. So like someone else said if you enjoy comedy,fanatsy, and/or romance you'll love this movie. *Enjoy!* God Bless&*Love* always ~Amy
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Summary: It's BIG and funny
Review: Laugh and imagine how this might happen. It's not quite a psychological thriller, but it does make the child inside you think.
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