Product Description

Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins. A 12-year-old boy makes a wish at a carnival and awakens to find himself a 30-year-old man in this funny, sensitive story of childhood vs. adulthood. Directed by Penny Marshall. 1988/color/102 min/PG.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27479 in DVD
• Brand: Fox Home Entertainment
• Released on: 2009-05-12
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese
• Subtitled in: French
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 104 minutes

Amazon.com
A perfect marriage of novel but incisive writing, acting, and direction, Big is the story of a 12-year-old boy who wishes he were older, and wakes up one morning as a 30-year-old man (Tom Hanks). The script by Gary Ross (Dave) and Anne Spielberg finds some unexpected ways of attacking obvious issues of sex, work, and childhood friendships, and in all of these things the accent is on classy humor and great sensitivity. Hanks is remarkable in the lead, at times hilarious (reacting to caviar just as a 12-year-old would) and at others deeply tender. Penny Marshall became a first-rate filmmaker with this 1988 work. --Tom Keogh