1988 · comedy · fantasy · drama
Big
Directed by Penny Marshall1h 44m1988
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.
Our read: Big (1988) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive comedy · fantasy · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / fantasy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- redemptive
- tender
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“You want charming body-swap wish fulfillment with piano duets and heart.”
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