Big 1988 Tom Hanks

Oh, it's a belter. Tom Hanks seems to be a bit embarassed by it nowadays, but I'll always love. I must have watched it dozens of times in my youth. I was pleased to see that I can still recite nearly every line in the film when it was on Sky Movies a couple of months back.

How many films have donkey's dying from snorting coke?
 
Tom Hanks's early stuff is brilliant.

Bachelor Party I love "paprika! the happiest spice in the world".

Volunteers always gets overlooked too - John Candy in that one as Tom Tuttle from Tacoma.

The Money Pit I have watched over and over - where the wires go in the kitchen cracks me up every time.

Dragnet - as Pep Streebeck? Brilliant.

The man can do no wrong in my eyes. :D
 
I remember it being the first film we taped on VHS off the telly :D. I love the film, I like the bit where Josh and his friend say this

Shimmy, shimmy, cocoa pop. Shimmy, shimmy, rock. Shimmy, shimmy, cocoa pop. Shimmy, shimmy, rock. I met a girlfriend - a triscuit. She said, a triscuit - a biscuit. Ice cream, soda pop, vanilla on the top. Ooh, Shelly's out, walking down the street, ten times a week. I read it. I said it. I stole my momma's credit. I'm cool. I'm hot. Sock me in the stomach three more times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1jeJwrnz2A

and also the big floor piano in the toy store.
 
Josh: Will you please leave? I got a deadline to meet. God.
Billy: Who the **** do you think you are?
Josh: HEY!
Billy: You're Josh Baskin, remember? You broke your arm on my roof! You hid in MY basement when Robert Dyson was about to rip your head off!
Josh: You don't get it, do you? This is important!
Billy: I'm your best friend. What's more important than that, huh?
[Turns to leave]
Billy: And I'm three months older than you are, ASSHOLE!
 
I've always loved Big

There's a classic moment when the kid playing his friend visits Hanks in his office. At the very end of the scene Hanks has a punching monkey puppet hit him on the chin complete with added sound effect. One of the funniest things I have ever seen:D
 
I love this film. I bought the extended edition on DVD which has two versions of the film. Both have the f-word in which I don't mind.

I think it was released as PG13 in the US and left the f-word intact.
Its amazing how many family films do have the f-word in them and but have been dubbed in the UK.

The Secret of my Success and Robin Hood Prince of Thieves (which has been re-released uncut) are two I can think of.

Anymore? :confused:
 
LOVE TOM HANKS!!!!

The only thing that disturbs me about the film, is that Susan (Elizabeth Perkins) sleeps with Josh. Albeit he has an adult body, but he's still a 12 year old inside. Always makes me a little uncomfortable. Nonetheless, I love this film to death!

I have pretty much every film he has ever done on DVD. Can't get enough of that bloke!

The only film I cannot watch again is Phildelphia. Not that's it's a dud, but it makes me so upset that I can't watch. Superb acting from Hanks and Washington.

I love Dragnet, Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail, Castaway, Toy Story 1,2 & 3, Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons, The Burbs, Forrest Gump, Polar Express, Splash...love them all!!!!

Won't hear a bad word said about my Tommy! ;)
 
ITV 1 showed it with the F word intact during one Sunday afternoon. I remember because it was on a week or two before that on ITV 1 and the F word was cut, but with nothing else on, I watched it again and was quite surprised to hear it. The DVD has it restored now and it's a 12 rating.

Adventures in Babysitting and Don't Tell Mom The Babysitters Dead are essentially PG films but with an F bomb in each making them 12's (or 15's at the time)
 
True! One of my favourite moments is the bit where him and his pal run across the road in between cars!

Also love the bit in the bank when they go to cash his paycheck :D



Me too ...
 
Haven't see this in ages but my favs are the piano floor and the trampoline scenes

My all-time-fav TH film is The Green Mile. His performance was amazing - actually there are several amazing performances in it. Tom was robbed of the Oscar IMO (*?!+ Crowe got it for that bloody Gladiator film :mad:).
 
This is pretty much what I was going to say lol

Tom Hanks also manages to get across the innocence of childhood, the joy in the simplest of things and how NOW is the only important moment in time.

His joy at playing the piano on the toyshop floor with the shop owner, pleasure in creating a new toy, not understanding how much such a toy would actually take to produce, the spitting out of caviar when he didn't like it, all the little things that made him convincingly and accurately childlike.

It is the saddest thing to see him grow up beyond his years, too, and he does this very well also, gradully becoming less exuberant and more restrained.

Love this film, and for me it doesn't age in the ways that matter :)
 
They have a Zoltar machine in a memrobilia shop in Downtown Disney in Florida, it's for sale and actually works. I couldn't resist having a go, still play the lotto numbers it gave me on the ticket, so far I've only won
 
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