

Fantasy · Drama
Big
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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Top Cast

Tom Hanks
Josh Baskin

Elizabeth Perkins
Susan

Robert Loggia
MacMillan

John Heard
Paul

Jared Rushton
Billy

David Moscow
Young Josh

Jon Lovitz
Scotty Brennen

Mercedes Ruehl
Mrs. Baskin
Directed by
Penny Marshall
Production
Reviews
Andre Gonzales
7/104/30/2023
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.
CinemaSerf
7/1011/21/2025
Oh, 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 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 a toy company. His thirteen year old self
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