6.0
Nathalie Granger
1973
“Have you ever had a really big secret?”
Big (1988)
June 3, 19881h 44mEN
7.2
4.0K votes
Overview
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.
Director
Penny MarshallWriters
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$18.0M
Revenue
$151.9M
Production Companies
American Entertainment Partners II L.P.Gracie Films20th Century Fox
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User Reviews
Andre Gonzales
7.0Love 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.
CinemaSerf
7.0Oh, if only I was still young enough to wish I was older! That’s 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 it’s 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 didn’t ask for, though, was a grown up mind to go with his new physique, and so finding…
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