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Big Fish
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404930384
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1404930388
Item Dimensions: 25
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 SurroundEnglish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: 00837
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: April 27, 2004
Running Time: 125 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: January 09, 2004
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Editorial Review:
After a string of mediocre movies, director Tim Burton regains his footing as he shifts from macabre fairy tales to Southern tall tales. Big Fish twines in and out of the oversized stories of Edward Bloom, played as a young man by Ewan McGregor (Moulin Rouge, Down with Love) and as a dying father by Albert Finney (Tom Jones). Edward's son Will (Billy Crudup, Almost Famous) sits by his father's bedside but has little patience with the old man's fables, because he feels these stories have kept him from knowing who his father really is. Burton dives into Bloom's imagination with zest, sending the determined young man into haunted woods, an idealized Southern town, a traveling circus, and much more. The result is sweet but--thanks to the director's dark and clever sensibility--never saccharine. Also featuring Jessica Lange, Alison Lohman, Helena Bonham Carter, Danny DeVito, and Steve Buscemi. --Bret Fetzer
Throughout his life Edward Bloom (Ewan McGregor) has always been a man of big appetites enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years portrayed by five-time Best Actor Oscar® nominee Albert Finney (Best Actor in a Supporting Role Erin Brockovich 2000) he remains a huge mystery to his son William (Billy Crudup). Now to get to know the real man Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures in this marvel of a movie.System Requirements:Running Time: 125 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG-13 UPC: 043396008373 Manufacturer No: 00837
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great UNDER rated movie.
This was very under-rated. Performances and story are great. SHould have been an acad nominee.
Rating: - This is a keeper
This is a wonderful story, already well-described by other reviewers. It is simply a fun movie to watch, and one that you can go back to and watch again. I disagree with one reviewer who said that it is not for children. I think children over 12 would easily understand and enjoy the movie.
Rating: - great movie, pointless BROWN COVER version
This review is about the version with the brown cover with a leafless tree behind the black letters BIG FISH. It contains two things: the exact same movie you get for a dollar more than half the price of this version and a hardbound booklet. The booklet contains thirteen pages with one or two sentences on it, and ten pages with a drawing or picture. That's it. If you think such a booklet is worth collecting, go for it. I'd rather collect used tea bags. There are hundreds of reviews of the movie Big ... Read More
Rating: - An excurssion to the best within us
Some encounters bathe your senses with ravishingly new waters that somehow leave you behind relishing a surprisingly familiar taste. Big Fish, for me, was one such encounter.
Based on Daniel Wallace's book, "Big Fish - A Story of Mythic Proportions", this is the story of Will's quest to demystify the tales and the life and the very person of his enigmatic father, Edward Bloom. A wonderful fairy-story in its own right, this is essentially an allegory depicting the complex, sometimes funny ... Read More
Rating: - No in-between on this one
You'll either love it or hate it. I personally love it which makes this a movie you want to own. You'll pick up things each time you watch it. Great story, great message, but as I said it's a bit "quirky".
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