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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404930384
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1404930388
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: April 27, 2004
Running Time: 125 minutes
Sales Rank: 2724
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: January 09, 2004
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Throughout his life Edward Bloom (Ewan McGregor) has always been a man of big appetites enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years portrayed by five-time Best Actor Oscar® nominee Albert Finney (Best Actor in a Supporting Role Erin Brockovich 2000) he remains a huge mystery to his son William (Billy Crudup). Now to get to know the real man Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures in this marvel of a movie.System Requirements:Running Time: 125 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG-13 UPC: 043396008373 Manufacturer No: 00837
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After a string of mediocre movies, director Tim Burton regains his footing as he shifts from macabre fairy tales to Southern tall tales. Big Fish twines in and out of the oversized stories of Edward Bloom, played as a young man by Ewan McGregor (Moulin Rouge, Down with Love) and as a dying father by Albert Finney (Tom Jones). Edward's son Will (Billy Crudup, Almost Famous) sits by his father's bedside but has little patience with the old man's fables, because he feels these stories have kept him from knowing who his father really is. Burton dives into Bloom's imagination with zest, sending the determined young man into haunted woods, an idealized Southern town, a traveling circus, and much more. The result is sweet but--thanks to the director's dark and clever sensibility--never saccharine. Also featuring Jessica Lange, Alison Lohman, Helena Bonham Carter, Danny DeVito, and Steve Buscemi. --Bret Fetzer
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Rating:  - An excurssion to the best within us
Some encounters bathe your senses with ravishingly new waters that somehow leave you behind relishing a surprisingly familiar taste. Big Fish, for me, was one such encounter.
Based on Daniel Wallace's book, "Big Fish - A Story of Mythic Proportions", this is the story of Will's quest to demystify the tales and the life and the very person of his enigmatic father, Edward Bloom. A wonderful fairy-story in its own right, this is essentially an allegory depicting the complex, sometimes funny and often mysterious relationship between a father and his son.
More than the allegorical function, however, what really arrested my attention was the character and portrayal of Edward Bloom. A look at Bloom and you instinctively know that there goes a happy fella, as if playing in his own `garden'. And it gives you a glimpse of how beautiful this world is, and how wonderful it is to be alive.
However, it is not the virtue of his `world' per se that gives this flavor to his persona. For his world is in essence little different from ours: a similar blend of things good and evil, of friendship, malice, love, hate, jealousy, escapism, courage, cowardice, honesty, thefts, wars, health and disease...
Rather, it is Bloom's sense of life that projects the enchantment onto his actions, his people and his country. A sense of life that wants to grow; that refuses to get stuck in comfort and convention; that exercises courage over caution; that pursues beauty...and the best ... Read More
Rating: - No in-between on this one
You'll either love it or hate it. I personally love it which makes this a movie you want to own. You'll pick up things each time you watch it. Great story, great message, but as I said it's a bit "quirky".
Rating: - EXCELLENT MOVIE
Visually and conceptually brilliant! A very well written, creative movie that is fun and touching!
Rating: - Paul's Review
Very touching movie! Some of the story is quite unbelievable and hard to follow, but if you follow till the end you won't be disappointed.
Rating: - Quite possibly Tim Burton's finest film.
A very bizarre movie even for Tim Burton, Big Fish is one of my favorites.
Wonderful acting, Jessica Lang is particularly powerful in this movie.
The rest of the cast is equally talented, bringing some funny moments, some strange moments and some tear jerking moments.
I think this movie was compared to Forrest Gump a lot. I can see the reasons, but I believe this to be the superior film.
Both movies have incredulous story lines, but in Gump's case, they tried to make the impossible seem real. In Big Fish's case, you never know what is real and what isn't. You won't know the truth until the very touching end.
Brilliantly directed, and unbelievably overlooked by many film lovers.
I'd put Big Fish in my top twenty any day.
Brilliant, strange, touching and memorable, Big Fish achieves greatness on every level.
Another brilliant contribution from Tim Burton, do your self a favor and rent this.
I think you'll be amazed by just how original and innovative this movie is.
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