SoSmooth1982
Love this movie growing up. Everytime I went to a fair I was always hoping to find a machine like this. Still one of my favorite movies of all time.
Big
- Fantasy
- Drama
- Comedy
- Romance
- Family
6/3/1988
104
PG
Have you ever had a really big secret?
When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big—he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.
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- Revenue:
- $151,927,281
- Budget:
- $18,000,000
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Cast
Tom HanksJosh Baskin
Elizabeth PerkinsSusan- Robert LoggiaMacMillan
- John HeardPaul
- Jared RushtonBilly
- David MoscowYoung Josh
- Jon LovitzScotty Brennen
- Mercedes RuehlMrs. Baskin
- Josh ClarkMr. Baskin
Kimberlee M. DavisCynthia Benson- Oliver BlockFreddie Benson
- Erika KatzCynthia's Friend
- Allan WassermanGym Teacher
- Mark BallouDerek
- Gary KlarTicket Taker
- Alec Von SommerFirst Brother
Reviews
Geronimo1967
Oh, if only I was still young enough to wish I was older! Thats the problem facing the young Josh (David Moscow) who just wants to get all the school and puberty malarkey over and done with. Well a strange looking slot machine called Zoltar offers him a wish in return for his quarter. Of course, he goes home to bed thinking its all nonsense, but when he awakens in the morning suffice to say his jeans no longer fit and his mother is mortified that Tom Hanks appears to have moved in! What the young lad didnt ask for, though, was a grown up mind to go with his new physique, and so finding it safer to quit the family home for a while, he has to try to make a living in the big wide world. Luckily, he gets himself a job - and where better than at...