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Big (1988)

June. 03,1988
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7.3
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PG
| Fantasy Drama Comedy Romance

When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.

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SpuffyWeb
1988/06/03

Sadly Over-hyped

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Mandeep Tyson
1988/06/04

The acting in this movie is really good.

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Fatma Suarez
1988/06/05

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

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Dana
1988/06/06

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

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Matt Greene
1988/06/07

Big is a coming-of-age-&-then-regretting-it tale. In the beginning, it's sappy, stupid & generic…but once Hanks shows up? Pure gold. This definitely isn't hanks best movie, but it's maybe his greatest performance; he's so great at being a kid, but is even better as kid pretending to be an adult. They so perfectly captures the sweet mischievousness and naïve awkwardness of a teenage boy in an adult world.

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Hitchcoc
1988/06/08

Of course, the premise sets up the possibility for an actor to either succeed or fail. If we don't buy into the innocence and the joy of a little boy, it isn't going to happen. By Tom Hanks being cast here, a mediocre script is brought to life. This was later a Broadway play, and when I saw it, I felt a bit cheated. Then it dawned on me that I was so involved in Hanks portrayal that the actor I was watching, as gifted as he was, was a step down. The plot, of course, involves a boy who maintains his childish being in a man's body. The man has choices in his world where the boy did not. Someone could fall in love with him in a romantic way. He, naturally, is clueless and this is bewildering. I remember Peter Sellers in "Being There." They are what they are and their environment is in conflict with them. Yet they don't have the intellectual wherewithal to change to adapt. A very nice movie. Unfortunately, a shameless commercial for F.A.O. Schwartz. But that's only a minor point.

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Leofwine_draca
1988/06/09

I finally got around to watching BIG purely because it's one of the biggest movies of the 1980s. I should not that I'm not really a huge fan of family comedies like this, so if this is your type of thing I'd add at least a couple of stars to my rating which comes from someone who isn't the target audience.BIG is one in a sub-genre of movies about kids who have the chance to be, well, big. Instead of going down the body-swap route, this film simply has a child version of Tom Hanks making a wish at a fun fair and waking up, adult-sized, the next morning. It's as straightforward as that, with all of the fish-out-of-water hijinks that ensue (taking the form of a child trapped in an adult world).What I liked about this film is that it turns out to be rather touching and with an interesting subtext that explores the loss of innocence and the importance of the formative childhood years. In some ways it evokes a lot of nostalgia in the audience, as well as identifying with us adults who sometimes feel like we're still kids ourselves despite our advancing years. Tom Hanks gives a sweet and likable turn as the lead, but matching him are Robert Loggia (ever the scene-stealer) and Elizabeth Perkins, whose transformation is quite eye-catching. The dancing sequence with Loggia and Hanks is the undoubted highlight here.

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banyaaaan-t
1988/06/10

A boy, Josh, wishes to be an adult at a magic box in an amusement park. Next morning, he finds himself that he becomes big but no one can recognize him except for Billy, a friend of him. Until getting the magic box and back to child, Josh goes to New York and starts to work at a toy company. He succeeds in the work, because he is a child and knows what children like. He falls in love with a female coworker, but he is just a child. Very very young Tom Hunks, anyway he is a great actor since young. We grow up and forgot being childish in good meanings. We, adults, forgot being pure and enjoy every moment. We used to dream of becoming big, but are we what we dreamed in childhood?

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