Big

Big
by Penny Marshall

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Actor: Elizabeth Perkins, Jared Rushton, John Heard, Robert Loggia, Tom Hanks
Director: Penny Marshall
Cinematographer: Barry Sonnenfeld
Producer: Anne Spielberg
Writer: Anne Spielberg
Producer: Gary Ross
Writer: Gary Ross
Producer: James L. Brooks
Producer: Robert Greenhut
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-10-05
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox

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Movie Review: Hanks' star rises again
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie is the fortituous meeting of a truly great script, and an actor who was primed and ready for superstardom. Tom Hanks had already been showing a lot of potential for several years (on TV, in "Bosom Buddies" and "Family Ties", and on the big screen in "Splash" and "The Money Pit"), but this film gave Hanks his first opportunity to really flex his considerable acting muscle. And flex it he does. Hanks' performance as overgrown 12 year-old Josh Baskin garnered him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.

However, his is not the only great performance in this movie. He's often nearly upstaged by Jared Rushton, who plays Billy Kopecki (Josh's best friend). Billy gets a few of the script's best zingers.

The basic storyline of "Big" was fraught with potential pitfalls and potential violations of taste, but it managed to avoid every one of them. It's often hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, and several scenes can either make you smile or cringe, depending on from which character's perspective you're viewing the scenes. Simply brilliant filmmaking.

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A 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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