![]() ![]() The dauntless Rushton realizes a junior-high education and a resume that only includes a paper route need not be an obstacle for his now big-boned pal - he encourages Hanks to apply for a job at a toy company. Only his dare-devil best friend (Jared Rushton) appreciates his plight, and gives him the requisite push out of the nest, smack dab into New York City. Even his mother (Mercedes Ruehl) doesn’t recognize him, and naturally he can’t lurk about his schoolyard. The gangling pre-pube is now an adult in size, but intellectually, emotionally and socially, he’s still an awkward and immature kid who’s got nowhere to turn. In this pleasingly slapstick comedy, Tom Hanks stars as a 13-year-old video-crazy kid who’s zapped by a carnival machine into the body of a 35-year-old adult. 'Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl': THR's 2003 Review This good and very funny movie should win out. ![]() They can laugh at the cautious committee men and numbskull numbers-crunchers all the way to the bank. Brooks took a bolder approach: They made a movie with a storyline that seems to have been the basis for every other comedy made last year - a kid takes over an adult’s body - and they’ve done a terrific job. Happily, 20 th Century Fox and producers Robert Greenhut and James L. Insecure moviemakers and timid executives often turn down projects because someone else has done a similar story, made a movie about the same topic, or, in the ultimate save-your-salary cop-out, pass because the pollsters have done an eight-tier, random sampling and found the demographics to be unfavorable. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review is below: ![]() ![]() On June 3, 1988, director Penny Marshall brought Tom Hanks and Big to theaters, where the film eventually grossed $150 million worldwide and became a pop culture classic. ![]()
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