In this heartfelt comedy starring Tom Hanks, a young boy discovers adulthood isn't all it's cracked up to be when his wish to be a grown-up magically comes true. At a carnival, young Josh …

Rated: 3.5/4 Jul 28, 2015 Full Review Victoria Mather Daily Telegraph (UK) Tom Hanks is marvellously child-like as Josh, all restless energy, innocence and real pleasure in the …

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 …

Through a carnival wishing machine, a 12-year-old boy is transferred into the body of a 35-year-old man. When a fortune-telling machine grants 13-year-old Josh his wish for adulthood, his …

Dec 28, 2013 · With the 1988 comedy classic Big turning 25, it's official: Young Josh Baskin (played by David Moscow) has grown up. Moscow was an 11-year-old acting newbie when he …

Big is a 1988 fantasy-comedy film produced by James L. Brooks and directed by Penny Marshall, starring Tom Hanks as a 12-year-old boy in the body of a 30-something man.

Big is a comedy-drama film released in 1988, directed by Penny Marshall and produced by James L. Brooks. The movie features Tom Hanks in the lead role of Josh Baskin, an adolescent boy …

Jun 3, 1988 · ''Big,'' which opens today at the National and other theaters, is only the latest of several similar films in which grown-up bodies are taken over by children's minds. But its …

Big is a 1988 American fantasy comedy film directed by Penny Marshall, and stars Tom Hanks as Josh Baskin, a young boy who makes a wish "to be big" and is then aged to adulthood …

Big is a film directed by Penny Marshall with Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, John Heard .... Year: 1988. Original title: Big. Synopsis: A 13-year-old boy named Josh wants, more …

Dec 25, 2014 · Big (1988), directed by Penny Marshall and starring Tom Hanks and Elizabeth Perkins. What did you want to be when you grew up? There was always some clever little …

Dec 19, 2000 · Young Josh (David Moscow) visits a fairground and after an embarrassing incident with the object of his desire, spies a machine - Zoltar - which promises to make his wishes …

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Jan 29, 2025 · Ahead of SNL’s 50th anniversary special, Bobby Moynihan looks back on his nine-year stint on the show — and the Drunk Uncle movie in his head: ‘He was an exterminator, …