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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19109 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-10-22
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, PAL, Special Edition
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 124 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 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

DVD Description
Special Features

Disc 1

Feature - Theatrical Version

Feature - Extended Version

Moving Menu

Audio Commentary by Gary Ross and Ann Spielberg

Disc 2

Moving Menu

Eight Deleted Scenes with With Optional Intros by Penny Marshall.

Featurette - Big Beginnings

Featurette - Chemistry Of A Classic

Featurette - The Work Of Play

Featurette - Backstory: Big

Featurette - Carnival Party Newswrap

Trailer A

Trailer B

Two TV Spots

Synopsis
In Penny Marshall's charming comedy, a 13-year-old boy named Josh (David Moscow) wants, more than anything else, to be 'big.' And when he makes a wish in a carnival booth, his dreams come true--he becomes a 30-year-old man (Tom Hanks), though his mind and spirit remain that of a child. Since he can't really go to school looking like an adult, and his mother doesn't know him in his new guise, Josh heads with his pal Billy (Jared Rushton) to New York, where they proceed to goof off, play around, and act like the kids they are. But when Billy leaves, Josh is subjected to the encroaching needs and responsibilities of adulthood, and he quickly discovers both the pleasures and the problems of being grown-up.

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Customer Reviews

Big is just a nice film.
I first watched this at the cinema as an 11 year old on it's initial release and I thought it was amazing. Watching it in my 30's and I still think it's a fantastic film.

It's one of those films that anyone of any age can enjoy and is rightly classed as timeless.

Shot on location around New York and New Jersey and is there 11 year old who didn't want an apartment like Josh.

4.5 stars for the film. Nice extras make it a five star DVD.