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Big (1988)
Big is a 1988 American fantasy comedy film directed by Penny Marshall and written by Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg. The film released on June 3, 1988 by Gracie Films. The film stars Elizabeth Perkins, John Heard, and Robert Loggia.
24 January 1954, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
3 June 1949, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
14 February 1955, Chicago, Illinois, USA
15 June 1935, New York, New York, USA
29 March 1946, Brooklyn, New York, USA
April 18, 2014
A disarmingly sweet movie.
July 29, 2013
Big, which has been directed by Penny Marshall with verve and impeccable judgment, drops a child's innocence into the corporate rat race as if it were a depth charge.
July 28, 2015
The film succeeds largely because of the splendid performance of Tom Hanks -- who is irresistibly funny as "big" Josh.
April 03, 2016
Hanks, as a stranger in a strange land, gives us equal portions of laughs and insights into the worlds of both adults and adolescents. Big also offers up a very funny satire of corporate ladder climbing.
August 02, 2013
Penny Marshall brings a logic to the premise that is sustained through most of the movie. And where the other movies snickered at the sexual possibilities in the idea, she faces up to them with both candor and taste.
December 25, 2014
Tom Hanks is marvellously child-like as Josh, all restless energy, innocence and real pleasure in the liberation that being grown-up allows him.
July 29, 2013
When Marshall brings Hanks and Perkins together, she discovers a grace and lightness in their relationship that transcends the pinched thematics of the script.
August 11, 2014
Big may well be a formula fantasy movie, but Penny Marshall's polished direction combined with Hanks's gauche charm make it the best of the spate of body-swap movies turned out by Hollywood in the late 1980s.
August 02, 2013
This setup isn't exactly what you'd call plausible, but the follow-through is consistent and clever.
August 11, 2014
Joyously entertaining, escapist stuff.
August 23, 2016
What makes this all work, of course, is Hanks himself, who brings remarkable authenticity and simplicity to the role. He makes being a kid seem as wonderful as it was, and as scary and as confusing too.
August 02, 2013
A delightful comedy-fantasy.
