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Empire Magazine (2008) Greatest Movies List - #190: Big

  Tom Hanks is often described as America’s dad because of his ability to portray everyday characters with a strong moral center and captivating gravitas. Yet all dads were once children and in one of Hanks’ earliest hits he played a child who wakes up with a grown-up’s body. This concept had been done before and has been done plenty of times since, but Big (1988) directed by Penny Marshal is one of the best executions of such a concept. This being 2020 I am still stuck indoors for most weekends with a lot of time on my hands and access to thousands of hours of content. Disney is on its way to owning every movie in existence, which allowed me to finally watch Big in its entirety. I had seen bits of it before on TV, but now I got to cross off yet another movie from my list during this quarantine year. For anyone else stuck indoors with no way out, you could do a lot worse to spend your time waiting for things to go back to normal. Lots of things have changed since Big came out i