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Tom Hanks makes a 'Big' hit
in his engaging comedy
"If only I were young again."
How often have adults said that?
But when we were kids, we
dreamed of being big. In the new
Tom Hanks film, "Big," that wish
is fulfilled.
In this delightful comedy, 12-year-old
Josh Baskin makes a wish
on a carnival's fortune-telling
machine to be big. Imagine his
surprise when he awakens the next
morning with the body and face
of Tom Hanks.
When his mother thinks this 30-year-old
man is a rapist who has
kidnapped her little boy, Josh runs
out of the house and tries to figure
out how to deal with this unusual
predicament. The rest is a fun-filled
yet touching view of the world, seen
from the eyes of a boy trapped in
a man's body.
Tom Hanks gives his best per
formance since his role in "Splash"
as the aged . Josh Baskin. He
manages to maintain a wide-eyed
but innocent expression through
out the movie with his reactions
on target for the confused young
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man. The comedic scenes succeed
largely because of Hanks' reac
tions. One genuinely feels for Josh
and for his situation thanks to
Hanks' first-rate performance.
Elizabeth Perkins appears as the
obligatory love interest in the film.
Her character, Susan, is a hope
lessly high-strung executive whose
sole purpose is to succeed in
business. Yet when Susan meets
Josh, the child in her struggles to
come out. She finds Josh's naive
view of the world refreshing and
becomes attracted to him.
"Big" is directed by Penny
Marshall of "Laverne and Shirley"
fame. Marshall proves her talents
as a director with "Big," after her
uneven debut with "Jumpin' Jack
Flash." She directs the comic scenes
well but misses chances of milking
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the comedic possibilities of several
scenes. However, she captures
Josh's sadness in this confused
situation.
"Big's" poignancy is what sets it
apart from other recent role rev
ersal films such as "Like Father,
Like Son," "Vice Versa" and "18
Again." Poignant scenes in "Big"
are few, but they all work.
When Josh cries himself to sleep
his first night alone in a seedy New
York City hotel room, the audience
genuinely feels for him. When the
30-year-old Josh tells his best
friend, 12-year-old Billy the only
person he can confide in that
he's going out with a girl rather
than spending time with him, the
rage and hurt Billy feels is very real.
When Josh says goodbye to Susan,
the viewer also feels the pain a
farewell can bring.
Moments such as these distin
guish "Big" as a cut above the rest.
They raise "Big" from good to great
and make it worth the time of any
moviegoer regardless of age.
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Get out the popcorn:
New video releases
heat up the summer
By BETH BUFF1NGTON
ArtsFeatures Editor
If the summer sun gets too hot,
come in from the heat and hibernate
in front of the tube while watching
the hottest newly released movies on
videotape.
Here are several movies available
at most videotape rental stores in
June and worth checking out:
"Fatal Attraction" Michael
Douglas, Glenn Close and Anne
Archer star in a suspenseful thriller
in which a man's love affair with a
deranged, obsessed woman turns
fatal and threatens his marriage in
more ways than one.
"Overboard" In this zany
comedy, Goldie Hawn's boring life
as a spoiled heiress is spiced up a bit
after she falls off a yacht, loses her
memory and gets paired up with Kurt
Russell, a carpenter.
"Nuts" Barbra Streisand and
Richard Dreyfuss star in this court
room drama which places Streisand,
an anti-social woman, at the mercy
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of the judicial system as she fights
against being institutionalized.
"Like Father, Like Son" In
this comedy, Dudley Moore and Kirk
Cameron star as a father-son team
who get their roles reversed for a wild
time.
"Full Metal Jacket" Matthew
Modine stars in Stanley Kubrick's
powerful story about Vietnam and
the Tet offensive. Kubrick shows
reality with the emotional effects of
war on a squad of Marines.
"Ironweed" Meryl Streep and
Jack Nicholson portray life on the
streets in the late 1930s as they fight
for survival.
"The Couch Trip" Dan Ayk
royd is joined by Donna Dixon,
Walter Matthau and Saturday Night
Live's Victoria Jackson in this rol
licking comedy about an escaped
psychiatric patient who sets up his
own psychiatric practice and ends up
becoming a leading radio sex
therapist.
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