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Film · 1988 · Fantasy comedy
Big
Directed by Penny Marshall
1988
★ 5.6 editorial score
Penny Marshall became the first woman to direct a film that made a hundred million dollars: Tom Hanks plays a thirteen-year-old in an adult body and never once winks at the audience.
“Tom Hanks is marvellously child-like as Josh, all restless energy, innocence and real pleasure in the liberation that being grown-up allows him. But, as Susan (Elizabeth Perkins) introduces him to adult games and responsibility is heaped upon him, he also portrays the bore that a grown-up can become, when self-involvement and meetings crowd out the time once spent on fun with buddies.”
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