Big (film)
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Big is a 1988 comedy film starring Tom Hanks that tells the story of a teenage boy who is aged to adulthood by a magical fortune-telling machine.
- Written by Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg. Directed by Penny Marshall.
Dialogue
- First lines of film
- Computer game: You are standing in the cavern of the evil ice wizard. All around you are the carcasses of slain ice dwarves.
- Mrs. Baskin{shouting}: Josh, take out the garbage.
- Josh{shouting}: In a minute, Mom!
- Josh{talking to himself}: Melt the wizard.
- Josh{typing}: Melt wizard.
- Computer game: What do you want to melt him with?
- Josh{talking to himself}: Throw the thermal pod.
- Mrs. Baskin{shouting}: JOSH!! The garbage is starting to stink up the house! Take it out, NOW!!
- Mr. Baskin{shouting}: Josh, you heard your mother!
- In the computer game, the enemy attacks Josh's avatar by encasing him in a big block of ice
- Computer game: Your hesitancy has cost you dearly. The wizard, sensing your apprehension, fires a fatal bolt from his ice scepter. With luck, you will thaw in several million years.
- Josh{talking to himself}: Great.
- The Baskin residence is covered by squad cars and neighbors pour out to see the excitement. A police dog barks at Josh, who needs to sneak by
- Policeman: This is one of the oddest missing child cases. His mother is all hysterical; cannot get a word out of her. No sign of forced entry, no ranson note and the only fingerprints we found all belonged to the Baskin family.
- Kid #1: Bet he got sick of his parents and ran away. Wish I could do that.
- Kid #2: I will help you pack.
- Paul: Have you tried Mattel?
- Susan: Yes.
- Paul: Well, how about Coleco?
- Susan: Yes, as well as Fisher Price and Worlds of Wonder. None of these places reported ever having a Josh Baskin on their payroll.
- Paul: Well, he's got to come from somewhere. The guy just does not come into the executive offices out of the blue.
- Susan: Face it Paul, the man comes from data processing.
- Paul: It's a mystery.
- Susan pours milk into her coffee. She has not seen the reverse side, which has a picture of the young Josh
- Milk Carton: MISSING: JOSHUA BASKIN
- Susan: I want to spend the night with you.
- Josh: Do you mean sleep over?
- Susan: Well, yeah.
- Josh: Well, okay, but I get to be on top.
- Josh: I'm much better at video hockey.
- Paul: That's not a sport.
- Josh: It requires hand and eye coordination.
- Paul: It's not a sport if you don't sweat.
- Josh: What about golf? It's a sport and you don't sweat.
- Paul: It's not a sport if you let a machine do all the work.
- Josh: What about car racing?
- Paul: Shut up, Baskin.
Cast
- Tom Hanks - Josh Baskin
- David Moscow - Young Josh
- Elizabeth Perkins - Susan Lawrence
- Robert Loggia - Mac MacMillan
- John Heard - Paul Davenport
- Jared Rushton - Billy Kopecki
