Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543044840
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 27, 2002
Running Time: 104 minutes
Sales Rank: 47411
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: June 03, 1988
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Amazon.com essential video:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Love this movie!
It took a little long to arrive, but it did not arrive late. Packaged and sealed, watched movie, no problems, no damage, easy to find online, easy pay. Ye-ah!
Rating: - Suspend disbelief, sit back, have fun
Never mind the Zoltar Speaks magic ticket, the missing kid whose name is on every milk carton but who happens to be working for a toy company, etc. Forget about it. Just sit back and enjoy the entertaining, sweet, and touching but never gooey ride. Tom Hanks and Elizabeth Perkins are wonderful together as the boy in a man's body and a love-starved woman.
The kid playing Hanks' best friend is great as well. And it will remind you of the old adage, "Be careful what you wish for--you might get it."
Rating: - Timeless Classic
I went to the same highschool as Tom. He graduated 4 years after me. Great actor and there are very few dvds that I buy (only the classics); this one falls into that category.
Rating:  - Tom Hanks in 1988
Tom Hanks is one of my all time favorite actors. I have loved his work ever since "Bosom Buddies" with Peter Scolari and Donna Dixon. This movie is so much fun, one that can be enjoyed over and over again. Hanks is especially adorable in this film. He plays the 12 year old "Josh" perfectly. And who can not love the scene in the toy store where Hanks's and Robert Loggia's characters are playing Heart and Soul on the giant floor piano.
Rating: - One great big fun filled movie watching experience...
The fact that I absolutely adore this movie comes as a huge shock to me since Tom Hanks is one of those actors I find completely overrated. There are really only a handful of his films I can even attest to enjoying (`Cast Away', shockingly, as well as `Saving Private Ryan') but for the most part I find his work a tad overrated (ala `Forest Gump' and `Philadelphia'). `Big', of all of Hanks' work, is probably my favorite. It is most definitely my favorite performance he's ever given and honestly this very performance may cause me to rethink everything I've already concluded about this Hollywood icon.
Penny Marshal's extremely successful family hit `Big' tells the story of twelve-year-old Josh, a kid tired of being a kid who makes a hasty wish to be an adult and winds up getting exactly what he wished for, with mixed results. Unable to explain what happened to him, Josh takes off from home until he can sort things out. This leaves him alone and confused and his parents distraught and heartbroken. Soon Josh starts to adjust, quite well at that. He lands himself a high profile job, acquires a very nice apartment and ends up dating a beautiful coworker.
While everything may seem to be going in the right direction, `Big' ever so delicately asks whether or not a normal childhood is worth giving up.
The script is beautifully written; in such a way that one can't help but relate to the main characters and become a part of their story. This is also hinged strongly ... Read More
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