Big film 1988 film by Penny Marshall

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Big Film 1988 Film By Penny Marshall

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movies fandom com wiki Big 1988 Big 1988 Moviepedia Fandom Overview Plot Cast 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 overnight The film also stars Elizabeth Perkins John Heard and Robert Loggia and was written by Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg was the latest and most successful of a series of age changing comedies produced in the late 1980s the others being Like Father Like Son 1987 18 Again 1988 Vice Versa 1988 and the Italian film Da grande 1987 See full list on movies fandom com Josh Baskin is a 12 year old boy living in Cliffside Park New Jersey who after being told he is too short for a carnival ride while attempting to impress an older girl puts a coin into an unusual antique arcade fortune teller machine called Zoltar Speaks and makes a wish to be big After Josh discovers the machine is unplugged it dispenses a card stating Your wish has been granted The next morning Josh has been transformed into a 30 year old man and when he goes back to the plaza with the fortune teller machine he finds that the carnival with the machine has moved on Fleeing from his mother who thinks he is a stranger who kidnapped her son Josh then finds his best friend Billy Kopecki at school and convinces him of his identity by singing a song that only the two of them know With Billy 39 s help he learns that it will take a couple of months to find the Zoltar Speaks machine so Josh rents a flophouse room in New York City and obtains a job as a data entry clerk at MacMillan Toy Company Josh runs into the company 39 s owner Mr MacMillan at FAO Schwarz and impresses him with his insight into current toys and his happy go lucky childlike enthusiasm The two play a duet on a foot operated electronic keyboard performing Heart and Soul and Chopsticks This earns Josh a promotion to a dream job getting paid to test toys With his promotion Josh 39 s larger salary enables him to move into a spacious apartment which he and Billy fill with toys a vending machine and a pinball machine Josh soon attracts the attention of Susan Lawrence a fellow McMillan executive A romance begins to develop to the annoyance of Susan 39 s competitive boyfriend Paul Davenport Josh becomes increasingly entwined in his adult life by spending time with Susan mingling with her friends and moving in with her His ideas become valuable assets to MacMillan Toys however after celebrating Josh 39 s 13th birthday with him Billy notices a change in Josh and feels annoyed and neglected suspecting that Josh has forgotten who he really is MacMillan asks Josh to come up with proposals for a new line of toys Josh is intimidated by the need to formulate the business aspects of the proposal but Susan says she will handle the business end while Josh comes up with ideas Nonetheless Josh feels overly pressured When he expresses doubts to Susan and attempts to explain that he is really a child she interprets this as fear of commitment on his part and dismisses his explanation Longing to return to the life of a child Josh learns from Billy that the Zoltar Speaks machine is now at Sea Point Park In the middle of presenting their proposal to MacMillan and other executives Josh leaves Susan also leaves and encounters Billy who tells her where Josh went At the park Josh finds the machine and makes a wish to become a kid again He is then confronted by Susan who seeing the machine and the fortune it gave Josh realizes he was telling the truth Susan becomes despondent at realizing their relationship is over Josh tells Susan she was the one thing about his adult life he wishes would not end and suggests she use the machine to turn herself into a little girl She declines indicating that being a child once was enough and takes Josh home After sharing an emotional goodbye Josh now 13 reverts to his child form and reunites with his family The movie ends with him and Billy hanging out See full list on movies fandom com Tom Hanks as Joshua Josh Baskin David Moscow as Young Josh Elizabeth Perkins as Susan Lawrence Robert Loggia as MacMillan John Heard as Paul Davenport Jared Rushton as Billy Kopecki See full list on movies fandom com

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Big Film 1988 Film By Penny Marshall

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Time Out movies big Big 1988 directed by Penny Marshall Film review Time Out Sep 10 2012 It 39 s no fun being in your early teens especially if you 39 re none too tall So thinks Josh Baskin having been denied a ride on a fairyground superloop But neither is

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