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Big
MEANRANK
77/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1110
- IMDb #1424
- Google retired #1169
- Rotten Tomatoes #524
- Metacritic #1043
- Letterboxd #1847
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #114
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1409
- Metacritic Critics #1212
- Metacritic Audience #904
- Criticker #1425
- Douban #510
- Kinopoisk #444
- AlloCiné #2095
- Trakt #1243
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Lowest is Criticker on 52, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 98.
See the most agreed on films →A young boy makes a wish at a carnival fortune-telling machine to be "big" and wakes up the next morning in the body of a 30-year-old man. He must navigate the adult world, getting a job at a toy company and starting a relationship, while secretly trying to find a way to reverse the wish and become a kid again.
Details
- Director
- Penny Marshall
- Writers
- Anne Spielberg, Gary Ross
- Released
- 3 June 1988
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $18.0M
- Box office
- $151.9M
- Awards
- 1 win, 3 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 4 →1 major award won · 1 win from 4 nominations across 2 ceremonies
| Golden Globe Awards 1988 | Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy | Tom Hanks | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1988 | Academy Award for Best Actor | Tom Hanks | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1988 | Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay | Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1988 | Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | N/a | Nominee |
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×| Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy | Tom Hanks | Winner |
| Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | N/a | Nominee |
| Academy Award for Best Actor | Tom Hanks | Nominee |
| Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay | Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg | Nominee |