USA,
1988, 100 min
(Special edition: 130 min)
Directed by:
Penny MarshallCinematography:
Barry SonnenfeldComposer:
Howard ShoreCast:
Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia, John Heard, Jared Rushton, David Moscow, Jon Lovitz, Mercedes Ruehl, Gary Howard Klar, Jamie Tirelli (more)VOD (5)
Plots(1)
Comedy about a 12-year-old boy who wishes to be bigger, and overnight becomes a 35-year-old man, who discovers that perhaps being a child isn't so bad after all. (official distributor synopsis)
Reviews (2)
I can't help it, but Tom Hanks really entertained me here, so I just have to rate it very high. But it's not only because he was great, it's also because of how the whole story is focused, how it manages to connect the children's and adult worlds, and how it shows that beauty lies in that childishness. It's just that we have to learn to live with the fact that we will never be children again, no matter how much we want to. ()