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Big Fish!!!
(2003)



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Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: Tim Burton
Screenwriter: John August (based on the novel ’ Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions’ by Daniel Wallace)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Jessica Lange, Danny DeVito, Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Buscemi, Billy Crudup, Alison Lohman, Hailey Anne Nelson, Robert Guillaume, Marion Cotillard.



We first meet the main character, Edward Bloom (Albert Finney), as an old man enchanting everyone except his son, Will (Billy Crudup), with his outlandish stories. Then we go back in time and see Ed as a young man (Ewan McGregor) catching the uncatchable fish of the title. Then, as the storytelling begins in earnest, we see his memorable birth (literally popping out of his mother’s womb) and childhood. An early encounter with an old witch (Helena Bonham Carter) who can show people how they die in her glass eye is classic Burton – creepy and fun. The film cuts back and forth between Ed’s fanciful exaggerations and the naturalistic, real world scenes featuring the older, dying Bloom and his estranged son, but the contrast is never jarring.


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