Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3211 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-10-13
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 100 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
A perfect marriage of novel but incisive writing, acting and direction, Big is the story of a 12-year-old boy who wishes he were older, and wakes up one morning as a30-year-old man (Tom Hanks). The script by Gary Ross(Dave) and Anne Spielberg finds some unexpected ways of attacking obvious issues of sex, work, and childhood friendships, and in all of these things the accent is on classy humour and great sensitivity. Hanks is remarkable in the lead, at times hilarious (reacting to caviar just as a 12-year-old would) and at others deeply tender. Penny Marshall became a first-rate filmmaker with this 1988 work. --Tom Keogh

Amazon.co.uk Review
A perfect marriage of quirky but incisive writing, acting and direction, Big is the story of a 12-year-old boy who wishes he were older, and wakes up one morning as a 30-year-old man (Tom Hanks). The script by Gary Ross (Dave) and Anne Spielberg finds some unexpected ways of attacking obvious issues of sex, work and childhood friendships, and in all of these things the accent is on classy humour and great sensitivity. Hanks is remarkable in the lead, at times hilarious (reacting to caviar just as a 12-year-old would) and at others deeply tender. Penny Marshall became a first-rate filmmaker with this 1988 work.--Tom Keogh, Amazon.com--This text refers to the VHS tape edition.

Special Features
1.85 Wide Screen
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 5
English
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 2.0 English
Dolby Digital 2.0
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Original Theatrical Trailer
Czech\Danish\Finnish\Hebrew\Hungarian\Icelandic\Norwegian\Polish\Portuguese\Swedish

Customer Reviews

enjoyable but lightweight
Both myself and my wife,a middle-aged couple,thoroughly enjoyed this film.It's extremely lightweight with the storyline of a thirteen year old boy going to bed and waking up in a mans body.There's a couple of punchlines along the way but it's a family film and not a comedy.With a lesser actor than Tom Hanks,it might have failed miserably but at an hour and forty mins long,it's a pleasant way of passing the time.Still difficult to recommend as it is so lightweight.

One Kids Wish Is Another Man's Curse
Tom Hanks plays the role of young boy Joel Baskin, a usual pre-teen who just wants to have fun and play with his mates. He sees an exciting arcade machine in the fair one day and decides to pop a quarter inside - he is asked to make a wish, he wants to be big.

He wakes up to find he's a grown man, of around 25-30 and has to grow up fast to deal with adulthood, and find a job to keep him fed, clothed and a roof over his head. He finds out that it's all not as easy as he'd like it to be, and he has the fortune of finding love - yet he has to learn about it too.

This is a great fantasy movie which I have loved for years. When we were kids we all wanted to be grown up so our parents would stop nagging us to clean up our bedrooms, and this is the consequence of doing so. I like the mythical aspect of it all, and the funny quirks you'd find normal as a kid, but just isn't acceptable as an adult. Tom Hanks is amazing in this, and just shows you what an actor he was before he got all serous on us. The supporting cast are great too.

This is a great movie for a young one between 9-13, but also very good for adults. I would suggest you get the Special Edition as it has all the extras and commentaries you might just enjoy more.

This is a classic tale, and well worth buying.

Tom Hanks is a great actor!!!
This film is good and has humour in, as well as a bit of sadness at the end when he returns back home, as an adult, with his adult girlfriend, then changes suddenly back to a boy. He waves, then walks into his house to see his mother that he hadn't seen for ages because (when he was a teen/boy) he went to a fair and had a go on a machine. The machine asked what his dream was, and he said, 'To be big', so that night he went to bed as usual, and in the morning he was big - but he was an adult!! He went downstairs, and his mother screamed (she though he was a stranger) so he had to go out into the wide world, for two reasons. One is because he had to find the machine so he could wish to become small again. Two was becuse otherwise he couldn't go home again. So he began his strange, grown-up life.
This DVD/story is very good and quite funny. Enjoy!