Big 1988 Tom Hanks

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This film don't seem to be talked about much so here is a thread for this very 80s film.

I really like this film I watched it again last night so have seen it quite a few times but its one I can keep watching.

What do you think of this film


A young boy makes a wish at a fairground machine to be big. He wakes up the following morning to find that his wish has been granted and his body has grown older over night. But he is still the same 12 year old kid on the 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. What will he find out about this strange world?


A young boy named Josh Baskin, wish one day from an old machine to be big, despite the fact that he does not believe it is going to work. He is very surprised, therefore, to find himself in the next day- big. Now he looks like a 30 years old guy, but he still behave like a twelve years boy. He decide to go with his best friend to New York, to find the machine that can fix his wish. In New York he gets a job in a toy company, and develop a relationship. Currently, he must learn to get used to the adults world he always wanted to be part of. Would he still like to remain an adult?
 
I think it's still a great movie, and certainly the best of those 80's body-swap movies.

I think it worked because as well as being funny, it actually treated the concept of how a young boy in a mans body would act seriously.And it is helped enormously by Hank's excellent and believable performance in the lead role.

He really gets across the confusion, the fear, and the awkwardness of somebody trapped in unfamiliar form. The sequence where he is in the dilpapidated hotel room listening to angry shouting from the hallway, and cowers in the corner crying is typical of how accurately Hanks manages to inhabit the role of a young, frightened child apart from his mother in a scary, unfamiliar environment.

I also think it's a great physical performance as well, Hanks gets the walk, the mannerisms and the speech patterns of a young boy down perfectly. It's a very underrated performance IMO, and one of the first that showed Hanks was capable of better things.
 
Great film!
I bought the DVD for my son a few years ago and it's still one of his favourites, mine too! For some very odd reason it always makes me cry.
 
I remember getting this on video when I was younger, and my mum thought it was a pirate copy. She'd probably just watched too many of those piracy warnings telling you not to buy from market stalls:D
 
:confused: Really? You're mising out on some great films. Tom Hanks is probably my favourite actor. He's the sort of actor that carries an entire film such as Big or Cast away
 
I first saw Big at an industry screening some months before it came out...and it actually had the F word in it at the time, though it was cut before release.

It was in the scene where Hank's friend comes to the office and asks him if he wants to go out and play with him, but Hanks has started to get used to the grown up world, and says he would rather not. The friend shouts at him, says he is not the same etc...and dropped the F bomb.

I remember thinking at the time it seemed completely out of place and unnescessary. It would certainly have got the film a 15 cert, so it made perfect sense to cut it.
 
Yes your right about the F bomb in it. On the re released DVD it is a 12 with the F bomb included. It does seem a bit out of place in family film. I think it was cut on original release in the US as well.

A good film. I haven't watched it in a while. Makes you remember what a great comedy actor Hank is.

Unfortunately as with so many films there were copycat films that followed. Like Vice Versa, 18 Again!, Like Father Like Son, and Dream a Little Dream. All of them came out in 1987 and 1988!!
 
I like Big. I thought that Zoltar machine was creepy.
Anyone remember watching Tom Hanks in Bachalor Party? Love that film hilarious (well was at the time I recall).
 
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