Comedy about a 12-year-old boy who wishes to be bigger, and overnight becomes a 35-year-old man, who discovers that perhaps being a child isn’t so bad after all.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: PG
Release Date: 4-FEB-2003
Media Type: DVDA perfect marriage of novel but incisive writing, acting, and direction, Big is the story of a 12-year-old boy who wishes he were older, and wakes up one morning as a 30-year-old man (Tom Hanks). The script by Gary Ross (Dave) and Anne Spielberg finds some unexpected ways of attacking obvious issues of sex, work, and childhood friendships, and in all of these things the accent is on classy humor and great sensitivity. Hanks is remarkable in the lead, at times hilarious (reacting to caviar just as a 12-year-old would) and at others deeply tender. Penny Marshall became a first-rate filmmaker with this 1988 work. –Tom Keogh
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April 3, 2010
#1
Maybe it’s me, but I’m not sure exactly what happened here. There’s a kid and he gets kidnapped at a carnival and then Tom Hanks gets a job at a toy factory and Mercedes Ruhl is his mom?
If the game was unplugged how could it have worked? And how come we couldn’t see Mercedes Ruhl taking a shower or maybe curling her hair in a towel?
And Elizabeth Perkins is pretty much unlovable, but the script forces Hanks and her together. She ditches her other boyfriend at the drop of a hat, because she thinks Hanks has more corporate potential. Well, that’s about as shallow as you can get, right?
I mean I got dumped once. ONCE! And the woman who’s name I won’t name said to me, “Navy, you’re too handsome and talented for me, I don’t deserve someone as noble and caring and prone to wearing sequins berets like you.”
And I said to her, “Listen, Carla Higgs who lives at 418 N. Castro St. in San Francisco, I know what you’re saying. I hear it all the time. And I understand where you’re coming from and just because your social security number is 452-666-6666, doesn’t not definitely mean you’re the child of satan. Though, it’s pretty likely with your mood swings and that fine little mustache you have.”
April 3, 2010
#2
Doesn’t every child? Well, if you are a child, and have watched this movie, you have probably changed your mind by now! And if you’re an adult, then you will identify with a lot in this movie. That is, if you’re watching it with your eyes open.
The movie starts off by making everyone reminisce (well, NOW anyway) by showing the old games, which you thought were state-of-the-art at the time! Now you see them, and you see rubbish graphics, and you had to type what you wanted the characters to do – I remember those! And the film quickly goes on from there.
I’m not sure what it was about the movie, but I wasn’t all that keen on it. It seems to drag in the middle, and the whole idea of the movie is forgotton. The mum isn’t included as much, it would have been nice to maybe see Tom Hanks come back and see her again, instead of just phoning her. My other quibble is that it’s only rated a PG – so much more could have been done with the movie, if it had been a 15, maybe NOT an 18. But I guess they were aiming at the kids, so putting it in some (funny) sex scenes would have not been allowed. Boo.
Tom Hanks is perfect as the kid in a man’s body – to me, he seems all arms and legs, awkward and gangly.
An OK movie – not one I would watch again, so it’s probably good I got it for free!!!
April 3, 2010
#3
and who would think that Tom Hanks was that young just 10 years or so ago. Good family fun.
April 3, 2010
#4
tom hanks was very funny as a guy who changed from 13 to 30 at first when he was grownup he acted like a teenager then he got use to being an adult but decided he missed being a kid but i tell being 30 years old may not sound easy but tom made it like simply and a lot of fun because he made a job at a toy business and met a women who fell in love with him before deciding he wanted to be a kid again another good comedy acting was the guy from home alone and the lady from the flistones this is a movie people of all ages will enjoy believe me when i say it
April 3, 2010
#5
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.