VHS : Big Fish (Dol Slip)
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starring: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carterdirected by: Tim Burton
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: 15452
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: January 09, 2004
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Editorial Review:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Very moving tale about a Father's Lifetime of whimsical stories!
QUICK PLOT - A mans father is dying, as the son tries to makes sense of a lifetime of his father's whimsical tales.
This movie demonstrates that we need to appreciate the people in our lives as "Perfectly Imperfect". Ewan McGregor plays the role of a son to a very charismatic father who was known for telling grand and whimsical tales. Although the son loved his father's stories as a child, as an adult he felt that the stories were a barrier to a true and meaningful relationship between ... Read More
Rating: - 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 ... Read More
Rating:  - 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 ... Read More
Rating: - Big Fish
Great movie. Reminds you not to take yourself so serious and enjoy life and older peoples stories.
Rating: - 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, ... Read More
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