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.
“Have you ever had a really big secret?”
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.
- Status
- Released
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $18M
- Box Office
- $151.93M
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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…
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What is Big about?
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 hav…
Who stars in Big?
The movie stars Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, John Heard, Jared Rushton and more.
When was Big released?
Big was released in 1988 and is streaming free on FlixWow.
Is Big worth watching?
Big holds a rating of 7.2/10 from viewer votes (4,165 ratings). Watch it free on FlixWow and judge for yourself.