Big

Starring: Elizabeth Perkins, Tom Hanks Director: Penny Marshall Original UK Premiere: 1988 Dvd Release: 13th October, 2003 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen, Region 2 Encoding Subtitled In: Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish

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Big is a 1988 comedy film which tells the story of a teenaged 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 & Mercedes Ruehl. The movie was written by Gary Ross & Anne Spielberg & directed by Penny Marshall. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role & Best Writing, Original Screenplay. In 1996, Big was musicalized for the Broadway stage. It featured music by David Shire, lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr. & a book by John Weidman. Directed by Mike Ockrent & choreographed by Susan Stroman, it opened on April 28, 1996. It was nominated for five Tony awards & Best Featured Actor in a musical. It closed after 193 performances on October 13th, 1996. Posters Of Big

A perfect marriage of novel but incisive writing, acting & direction, Big is the story of a 12-year-old boy who wishes he were older, & wakes up one morning as a30-year-old man . The script by Gary Ross & Anne Spielberg finds some unexpected ways of attacking obvious issues of sex, work, & childhood friendships, & in all of these things the accent is on classy humour & great sensitivity. Hanks is remarkable in the lead, at times hilarious & at others deeply tender. Penny Marshall became a first-rate filmmaker with this 1988 work. , Tom Keogh

Elizabeth Perkins is a well-known American movie, television & theater actress. She was born in Queens, New York & was raised in Vermont. After finishing high school she spent three years in Chicago taking acting lessons at the famous Goodman School of Drama. Back in New York in 1984, she did her first theater performance. Thereafter she worked in several ensembles & has since then considered theater playing as a priority of her career. As a movie actress she had her breakthrough starring with Tom Hanks in Big. She then received critical acclaim for her performance in Barry Levinson s Avalon. Of all the films she has acted in, her biggest success so far has been however The Flintstones, starring also John Goodman, in which she plays the long-suffering Wilma Flinstone. In 1993 Perkins made her television debut in For Their Own Good. She starred thereafter in the comedy series Battery Park & If These Walls Could Talk & has since then played roles in television films on a regular basis. Perkins first husband was Terry Kinney, from whom she divorced. Posters Of Jiminy Glick In La La Wood

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Thomas Jeffrey Hanks is an American actor famous for playing notable roles in many popular & critically acclaimed movies. He is well known for his acting ability & is able to play characters that range from the vulnerable Forrest Gump, to the inspirational lead in Philadelphia, to the never-say-die commander in Apollo 13. Hanks is generally known for his ability to imbue nice-guy roles with warmth, for example in the romantic comedy Sleepless in Seattle, but is quite capable of taking the role of a mob hitman in Road to Perdition. Hanks is currently one of the most sought-after leading men in Hollywood. His salary for two recent movies was USD$20 million each. His portrayal of the likeable lead in Forrest Gump earned him $70 million. Born in Concord, California, Hanks later studied theatre at California State University, Sacramento. He couldnt get cast in a college play so he auditioned for community theater instead. He was invited by the director of that play to go to Cleveland & it was there his acting career started. Posters Of Apollo 13

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Penny Marshall is an American actress, producer & director. She was born Carole Penelope Masciarelli in The Bronx, New York. She is the sister of writer, producer & director Garry Marshall. Penny played the role of the wise-cracking brewery worker Laverne DeFazio in the popular TV sitcom Laverne & Shirley from. Marshall was married to actor & director Rob Reiner. She has directed several successful feature motion pictures since the mid- 1980s, including Big, Awakenings & A League of Their Own. Posters Of Riding In Cars With Boys

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