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Big is a 1988 comedy film about a teenage boy who is aged to adulthood by a magical fortune-telling machine. It stars Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, John Heard, Jared Rushton, David Moscow, Jon Lovitz and Mercedes Ruehl. more...

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The movie was written by Gary Ross, with Justin Schindler, and Anne Spielberg. Penny Marshall directed.

The movie takes place partially at Playland amusement park in Rye, New York, in the United States. In the movie, young Josh is supposed to live in Cliffside Park, New Jersey

Tom Hanks was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role.

The movie was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

This film is number 23 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies".

Plot

After being humiliated while trying to impress an older girl at a carnival, Josh goes to a wish/fortune-telling machine, called Zoltar Speaks, in the shape of a gypsy wizard and wishes that he were "big." The next morning, Josh wakes up to a reflection in the mirror he does not recognize: a full grown man's reflection.

When his mother sees him, she drives what appears to be a menacing intruder out of her house, then finding Josh gone, believes he has been kidnapped. In desperation, Josh corners his 13-year-old best friend Billy Kopecki, and convinces him of his true identity (by singing a secret song only they know). With his help, Josh rents a cheap room in Manhattan, and gets a lowly data-entry job at the MacMillan Toy Company.

In a memorable scene, he meets the company's owner, MacMillan, checking out the products at the FAO Schwarz toy store, and impresses him with his childlike enthusiasm. They end up playing a duet together on a giant foot-operated electronic keyboard, performing Chopsticks and Heart and Soul. This earns Josh a promotion to a dream job for a kid: testing toys all day long and getting paid for it. With his insight into what sells to children, he quickly rises up the corporate ranks.

He soon attracts the attention of the beautiful, ambitious Susan Lawrence, a fellow toy executive, and a romance begins to develop, much to the annoyance of her current boyfriend, Paul. In time, Josh sees his friendship with Billy start to fade as his relationship with Susan begins to grow, and he is faced with a choice: return to his old life with his family and friends, or remain an adult with Susan. Ultimately, he decides to return to his normal life and seeks out the Zoltar machine, wishing himself back to childhood.

There were apparently two different endings filmed. In the much more common one, Susan catches up to Josh before he makes his wish. Josh tries to convince her to join him, but she isn't willing to relive her adolescence again. They part, with a hint that they may meet later, when he has grown up. In the other ending, after Josh has reverted to his right age, he and Billy are in class when the teacher introduces a new girl who looks exactly like Susan, only younger.

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