Big

Theatrical Release Date: 1988 06 03 (USA)

UPC: 024543580935

Studio: 20th Century Fox

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Adult Situations, Adult Language, Watch With Your Kids]

Summary: More than anything else, 13-year old New Jerseyite Josh (David Moscow) wants to be "big". That's the wish he makes at an odd-looking amusement pier fortunetelling machine. The next morning, Josh wakes up-only to discover that he's grown to manhood overnight! (At this point, the part is taken over by Tom Hanks). Still a 13-year-old mentally and emotionally, Josh decides to hide out in New York City until he can figure out what to do next. He lucks into a job with a major toy company run by kid-at-heart McMillan (Robert Loggia). By cannily bringing a child's eye view to McMillan's business, Josh rises to the top-and in process, he falls in love with fellow employee Susan (Elizabeth Perkins). But he's still a kid, and he'd like to go back to his own world and own body. Written by Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg, Big proved a crucial success for budding director Penny Marshall, who'd work harmoniously with Hanks again on the radically different A League of Their Own. The cinematography was by Barry Sonenfeld, who went on to become a director himself with The Addams Family. That Big was heavily reliant upon the input of Tom Hanks and Penny Marshall was proven by the failed attempt to turn the property into a Broadway musical. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Category: Comedy

Awards: Best Picture - Musical or Comedy – null Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or – null Best Actor – Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Actor – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Best Original Screenplay – Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 10 Best Films – National Board of Review Best Picture - Musical or Comedy – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or – Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Picture - Comedy or Musical – People's Choice Awards

Features: Theatrical Version & Extended Cut
Big Brainstorming Audio Commentary by Writers/Co-Producers Gary Ross & Anne Spielberg

8 Deleted Scenes, Including 5 with Intros by Director Penny Marshall

Exclusive featurettes: Big Beginnings, Chemistry of a Classic, The Work of Play

AMC Backstory: Big
Carnival Party Newswrap

Big

Format: Blu-ray

Release Date: 05/12/2009

Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Theatre Wide-Screen

Audio: DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo, DD5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1, DHMA null

Runtime: 104 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English,French,Spanish,Portuguese

Subtitles: Spanish

Mark Deming

While Josh Baskin in Big was not Tom Hanks's first major role, it began to transform the star of Bachelor Party and Dragnet into one of the leading movie actors of the 1990s. Director Penny Marshall and screenwriters Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg tell their story with understated intelligence and a marvelous feel for the mind of a 12-year-old, a time when adolescent obsessions are just starting to edge into the child's psyche. Both physically and emotionally, Hanks does a nearly flawless job of putting the soul of a 12-year-old boy into the body of a 35-year-old man. His awkward gangliness and clumsy over-enthusiasm look and feel as if he's not yet used to the body he's grown into, and his naivete is convincing, unforced, and utterly winning. Josh never seems childish, but rather like a child who is out of his element and determined not to let it show (which, of course, just makes it show all the more). Hanks also had the good fortune to be cast alongside Elizabeth Perkins, whose sharp but sneakily charming personality has rarely been used to better advantage, and Jared Rushton, who in his scenes with Hanks achieves the goofy rapport of two kids talking after school with someone almost three times his age. Hanks's and Marshall's feel for details and willingness to take a subtle approach raise the film well above Vice Versa or Like Father, Like Son, two similarly themed films which took a much broader tone, making clear how big a difference a light touch can make. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Vinnie Capone  Actor 
Bruce Jarchow  Actor 
George J. Manos  Actor 
Tracy Reiner  Actor 
Edward Schick  Actor 
Mark Ballou  Actor 
Paul Herman  Actor 
Keith Reddin  Actor 
Judd Trichter  Actor 
Pasquale Pugliese  Actor 
Kimberlee M. Davis  Actor 
Erika Katz  Actor 
Kevin Meaney  Actor 
Jon Levita  Actor 
Mildred R. Vandever  Actor 
Nancy Giles  Actor 
Samantha Larkin  Actor 
Linda Gillen  Actor 
Susan Wilder  Actor 
Oliver Block  Actor 
Lela Ivey  Actor 
Rockets Redglare  Actor 
Allan Wasserman  Actor 
Vaughn Sandman  Actor 
Josh Clark  Actor 
Dana Kaminski  Actor 
Peter McRobbie  Actor 
John Rothman  Actor 
Max Raven  Actor 
Jordan Thaler  Actor 
James Eckhouse  Actor 
Gary Klar  Actor 
Dolores Messina  Actor 
Debra Jo Rupp  Actor 
Chris Dowden  Actor 
Alec Von Sommer  Actor 
Paul L.Q. Lee  Actor 
Jaime Tirelli  Actor 
Gordon Press  Actor 
Harvey Miller  Actor 
James L. Brooks  Producer 
Robert Greenhut  Producer 
Judianna Makovsky  Composer (Music Score) 
Penny Marshall  Director 
Gary Ross  Screenwriter 
Howard Shore  Composer (Music Score) 
Anne Spielberg  Screenwriter 
Tom Hanks  Actor 
Elizabeth Perkins  Actor 
John Heard  Actor 
Jared Rushton  Actor 
Robert Loggia  Actor 
David Moscow  Actor 
Mercedes Ruehl  Actor 
Jon Lovitz  Actor 

Country: USA