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Big Fish (Dol Slip)
starring: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter
directed by: Tim Burton

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Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781404930360
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1404930361
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: August 03, 2004
Running Time: 125 minutes
Sales Rank: 16794
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: January 09, 2004

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Amazon.com:
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

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Life is nothing but invisible marvellous wonders
It turns all around the father and his son and their difficult relation. It was perfect as long as the son believed in the stories the father was telling him all the time, that is to say as long as Father Christmas really was a childhood hero. But older age came and those stories sounded all silly, even sillier and sillier and they led to a complete break between the two, the father and the son, till the father came to the point of departing from this life. The son and his wife came back and he was confronted to the stories again. But one day when he was sorting out some old documents of his father's for his mother he came across a strange deed that showed the existence of an estate under the name of his father. And he went there and discovered that this estate had some tremendous reality and that the witch of the old stories was the young girl from some other old story who had become a piano teacher and had benefited ... Read More

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- Soooooo slllloooooowwww
I give it 2 stars for cinematography and acting. Other then that I can't recommend this film, especially if you aren't fond of slow, long, drawn out movies that really have no point and whose characters are blah. It does remind me of Forrest Gump a little but Ewan McGregor is no Tom Hanks! And his adventures are no where near as interesting or believable as in Forrest Gump.

My husband loves it and wanted me to see it, so I said yes. Most of the time I was sitting there thinking "can we fast forward, because I don't get the point of this scene and it's really boring" And after it was over I was thinking "was that only two hours, because it felt like four" I should have know better. My husband was never a good judge of movies.

I guess I kept expecting something to happen, but it never did. Every scene led up to what I thought would be a big wow factor, but never was. They built up tension in every ... Read More

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- Big Fish
Great movie. Reminds you not to take yourself so serious and enjoy life and older peoples stories.

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- A Fairy Tale for Adults
"Big Fish" may be Tim Burton's best film. At the very least, it's his most underrated. Everyone always talks about his concept work/production on The Nightmare Before Christmas and his older work, but I'd argue that this is a more solid film than those. Instead of comparing, though, I'll just talk about what makes this movie so great.

The basic plot is this: Edward Blood was never the best father, especially through his son's eyes. He'd always tell patently false tales about his life, often hogging the attention with his fantastic stories. Now, as he gets closer and closer to death, he recounts his stories to his son and his new daughter in law, in hopes that his son will finally come to know who he truly is. This sort of story was perfect for Tim Burton, because he gets to finally flex his creative muscle and pull it in multiple ways, since the "telling stories" parts of this movie make this more like ... Read More

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