Love this movie growing up. Everytime I went to a fair I was always hoping to find a machine like this. Still one of my favorite movies of all time.
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Big
1988 EN 104 min
Overview
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.
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Release date
03/06/1988
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4,104
Popularity
9.2
Tom Hanks
Josh Baskin
Elizabeth Perkins
Susan
Robert Loggia
MacMillan
John Heard
Paul
Jared Rushton
Billy
David Moscow
Young Josh
Jon Lovitz
Scotty Brennen
Mercedes Ruehl
Mrs. Baskin
Josh Clark
Mr. Baskin
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Kimberlee M. Davis
Cynthia Benson
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Oliver Block
Freddie Benson
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Erika Katz
Cynthia's Friend
Allan Wasserman
Gym Teacher
Mark Ballou
Derek
Gary Klar
Ticket Taker
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Alec Von Sommer
First Brother
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Chris Dowden
Second Brother
Rockets Redglare
Motel Clerk
Jamie Tirelli
Spanish Voice (voice)
Paul Herman
Schizo
Nancy Giles
Administrative Woman
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Jordan Thaler
Administrative Clerk
Dana Kaminski
Personnel Receptionist
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Harvey Miller
Personnel Director
Tracy Reiner
Test Market Researcher
James Eckhouse
Supervisor
Linda Gillen
Woman in Red Dress
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Mildred R. Vandever
Receptionist
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Bert Goldstein
First Executive
Kevin Meaney
Executive #2
Peter McRobbie
Executive #3
Paul J.Q. Lee
Executive #4
Debra Jo Rupp
Miss Patterson
Keith Reddin
Payroll Clerk
Lela Ivey
Bank Teller
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Dolores Messina
Real Estate Agent
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Gordon Press
Moving Man
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George J. Manos
Limousine Driver
Vince Cupone
Photon Laser Gunfighter
Susan Wilder
Karen
John Rothman
Phil
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Judd Trichter
Adam
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Pasquale Pugliese
Tenor / Dough Man
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Tom Coviello
Singing Waiter
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Richard Devia
Singing Waiter
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Teddy Holiavko
Singing Waiter
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Augusto Mariani
Singing Waiter
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Alfredo Monti
Singing Waiter
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Sergio Mosetti
Singing Waiter
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Armando Penso
Singing Waiter
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Edward Schick
Piano Player
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F. Benjamin Stimler
Boy in Leaves
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Jonathan Isaac Landau
Boy in Leaves
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Samantha Larkin
Girl Friend of Cynthia
Bruce Jarchow
Photographer
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Vaughn Sandman
Boy on Baseball Field
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Pawl Bazile
Child at Taxi Stand (uncredited)
Brian J. Cano
Basketball Player (uncredited)
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Victor Competiello
Bartender (uncredited)
Kevin Fennessy
Handball Spectator (uncredited)
Frances Fisher
Billy's Mother (Extended Version) (uncredited)
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Matt Mindell
Friend (uncredited)
Brooke Marie Procida
Student (uncredited)
Bret McCormick
Carnival Strongman
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Oh, if only I was still young enough to wish I was older! That’s the problem facing the young “Josh” (David Moscow) who just wants to get all the school and puberty malarkey over and done with. Well a strange looking slot machine called “Zoltar” offers him a wish in return for his quarter. Of course, he goes home to bed thinking it’s all nonsense, but when he awakens in the morning suffice to say his jeans no longer fit and his mother is mortified that Tom Hanks appears to have moved in! What the young lad didn’t ask for, though, was a grown up mind to go with his new physique, and so finding …
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