Big Fish
January 9, 2004 in theaters
A son tries to learn the truth about his larger-than-life father Edward Bloom by piecing together the fantastical tall tales the man has told his whole life -- stories of giants, witches, circuses, and impossible escapes. Tim Burton's 2003 film is an unexpectedly warm meditation on storytelling, memory, and the complicated love between fathers and sons.
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"That was my first glimpse of her -- and in that moment I felt something I had never felt before: a kick in the chest."
DID YOU KNOW?
Alison Lohman plays Jessica Lange's character at a young age -- the two actresses studied each other's mannerisms extensively to create continuity.
THE VERDICT
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Tim Burton's most emotionally grounded film -- a meditation on fathers, storytelling, and the space between the truth of a life and the myth a person makes of it. Ewan McGregor and Albert Finney play Edward Bloom at different ages with enough continuity that the film's central trick -- that the tall tales ARE the truth in the way that matters -- actually lands. It is the rare Burton film where the fantastical elements earn their sentiment.
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