Big (1988)
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Reviews Counted:51
Fresh:49
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.9/10
Runtime: 2 hrs
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: A 13-year-old boy named Josh wants, more than anything else, to be "big". And when he makes a wish on a carnival wishing booth his dreams come true: he transposes into the body of a 35 year old man... [More]
Starring: Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, David Moscow, Robert Loggia
Director: Penny Marshall
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Reviews for Big
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 3.5/4 |
One of Hollywood's all-time most appealing magic realist fantasies. [Blu-ray] Full Review |
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As far as the movie's message is considered -- if only grown-ups could be more like kids -- Jerry Lewis did an infinitely better job of plugging it in the 50s. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
The best of the spate of body-switching films in the late 80s. Full Review |
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Unspools with enjoyable genuineness and ingenuity. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Once in a blue moon, there are moments of perfect casting that virtually ensure a movie is going to be a piece of class. And that's what you've got here. Full Review |
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4/4 |
Hanks so convincingly played a grown-up with a 12-year-old mind that he transformed instantly in the public eye from a run-of-the-mill comedy star to a respected actor with limitless potential. Full Review |
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4/5 |
It touched me Full Review |
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A- |
The picture still stands proud as a comedy easy chair of sorts, but even more vividly as Tom Hanks's finest hour as an actor. Full Review |
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Marshall, Hanks, and his co-stars seldom put a foot wrong. Full Review |
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4/5 |
It is...one of those films that simply cannot be touched, no matter how one pokes and prods at its lapses in logic. Full Review |
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3/5 |
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5/5 |
Great performance by Hanks makes this a winner.
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