Big

1988 • 104 minutes

About this movie

At a carnival, young Josh Baskin (Tom Hanks) wishes he was big -- only to awake the next morning and discover he is! With the help of his friend Billy, Josh lands a job at a toy company. but the more he experiences being an adult, the more Josh longs for the simple joys of childhood.

Ratings and reviews

In this inspiring tale of one mans battle against schizophrenia, Tom Hanks returns from WW2 to befriend a small scared oddball child by singing to him, conduct grief counseling with a vending machine, perform serious fraud, worm his way into a six figure job through sheer lies, learn to love a woman as much as a volleyball and to learn the most important lesson of all in life, how to cooperatively play a life size piano in a children's toy shop while not being sectioned for your obvious mental illness.

A film where you can comfortably think. Only Tom Hanks can play the lead such a heart warming film and very honest from the emotion of a mother losing her son to a woman losing her soul mate. It shows how much being a child when you grow up is still important but not too much. Always have a place in my collection this film will.

Taking us back to a time when kids just wanted to play and have fun, reminding us that there is a child in all of us. Utterly charming, the piano scene is pure class. A perfect cast! How we change as we get older wrapped up in life! We remember how disappointed we felt when "grownups"didn't have the time for us. A fantastic film!