Big [WS]

Director: Penny Marshall

Overview

"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 over

Product Details

Release Date:	11/01/2011
UPC:	0024543020172
Original Release:	1988
Rating:	PG
Source:	20th Century Fox
Language:	English
Sales rank:	10,518

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Tom Hanks	Josh
Elizabeth Perkins	Susan
Robert Loggia	MacMillan
John Heard	Paul
Jared Rushton	Billy
David Moscow	Young Josh
Jon Lovitz	Scotty Brennen
Mercedes Ruehl	Mrs. Baskin
Josh Clark	Mr. Baskin
Kimberlee M. Davis	Cynthia Benson
Oliver Block	Freddie Benson
Erika Katz	Cynthia's Friend
Allan Wasserman	Gym Teacher
Mark Ballou	Derek
Gary Howard Klar	Ticket Taker(as Gary Klar)
Alec von Sommer	First Brother
Chris Dowden	Second Brother
Rockets Redglare	Motel Clerk
Paul Herman	Schizo
Nancy Giles	Administrative Woman
Jordan Thaler	Administrative Clerk
Dana Kaminski	Personnel Receptionist
Harvey Miller	Personnel Director
Tracy Reiner	Test Market Researcher
James Eckhouse	Supervisor
Linda Gillen	Woman in Red Dress
Mildred R. Vandever	Receptionist
Jamie Tirelli	Spanish Voice,Actor
Jon Levita	Actor
Kevin Meaney	2nd Executive
Peter McRobbie	Executive #3
Paul Lee	4th Executive
Debra Rupp	Miss Patterson
Lela Ivey	Bank Teller
Dolores Messina	Real Estate Agent
Gordon Press	Moving Man
George Manos	Limousine Driver
Vinny Capone	Photon Laser Gunfighter
Susan Wilder	Karen
John Rothman	Phil
Judd Trichter	Adam
Pasquale Pugliese	Tenor/Dough man
Edward Schick	Piano Player
Samantha Larkin	Girl Friend of Cynthia
Bruce Jarchow	Photographer
Vaughn Sandman	Boy on Baseball Field
Keith Reddin	Payroll Clerk
Howard Shore	Composer
Judianna Makovsky	Composer

Technical Credits

Anne Spielberg

Gary Ross

James L. Brooks	Producer
Robert Greenhut	Producer
Anne Spielberg	Screenwriter
Juliet Taylor	Casting,Producer
Gary Ross	Screenwriter
Les Lazarowitz	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

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.