Big is an 1988 comedy-drama film about a boy who makes a wish "to be big" to a magical fortune-telling machine, and is then aged to adulthood overnight. It stars Tom Hanks. The film was written by Gary Ross, with Justin Schindler, and Anne Spielberg and directed by Penny Marshall who replaced Steven Spielberg.
After being humiliated attempting to impress an older teenage girl at a carnival, Josh Baskin (David Moscow) goes to a wish/fortune-tellin...
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Big is an 1988 comedy-drama film about a boy who makes a wish "to be big" to a magical fortune-telling machine, and is then aged to adulthood overnight. It stars Tom Hanks. The film was written by Gary Ross, with Justin Schindler, and Anne Spielberg and directed by Penny Marshall who replaced Steven Spielberg.
After being humiliated attempting to impress an older teenage girl at a carnival, Josh Baskin (David Moscow) goes to a wish/fortune-telling machine, called Zoltar Speaks and wishes that he were "big." The next morning, he sees a face in the mirror he does not recognize. Overnight, he has become a 30-year-old man (Tom Hanks). With the help of his 13-year-old best friend, Billy Francis Kopecki (Jared Rushton), Josh rents a cheap room in New York City and gets a lowly data-entry job at the MacMillan Toy Company. He meets the company's owner, MacMillan (Robert Loggia), checking out the products at the FAO Schwarz toy store, and impresses him with his childlike enthusiasm. They end...
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