Amazon.com Essentials:
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
