Big Fish
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- Release Date
- December 25, 2003
- Director
- Tim Burton
- Cast
- Ewan McGregor , Albert Finney , Billy Crudup , Jessica Lange , Helena Bonham Carter , Alison Lohman
- Runtime
- 125
- Main Genre
- Adventure
- Writers
- Daniel Wallace , John August
- Tagline
- An adventure as big as life itself.
- Website
- http://www.sony.com/bigfish/
Summary
From the imagination of visionary director Tim Burton, comes the fantasy-rich family drama Big Fish. A web-like tapestry woven of stories both real and exaggerated, Big Fish is the story of Edward Bloom and those who love him. Even if he doesn?t always believe every word he says, for Edward it?s all in the telling. As an eight-year old confined to bed because of a preternatural growing spurt, Edward occupies himself by reading the entire World Book Encyclopedia. He is taken in particular with an article about goldfish, in which he learns that ?if goldfish are kept in a small bowl, they will remain small. With more space, the fish can double, triple or quadruple its size.? Ten years later, after becoming one of the most popular young men in Ashton, Alabama, he realizes that, like the goldfish, in order for him to grow he must leave home and explore the world. As he confides to his new friend Karl the Giant, ?You think this town is too small for you? Well, it?s too small for a man of my ambition. I love every square inch of it. But I can feel the edges closing in on me. A man?s life can only grow to a certain size in a place like this.? And thus, an improbable and mythic journey begins. Many years and countless adventures later, Bloom (Albert Finney) is well known as a teller of tall tales about his colorful life as a less than ordinary young man (Ewan McGregor), when his wanderlust took him around the world and back again. His mythic exploits range from the delightful to the surreal, interweaving epic sagas about giants and werewolves, conjoined Korean lounge singers, a witch with a glass eye that can see the future - and of course, a big fish that refuses to be caught. Bloom?s fabled stories charm everyone he encounters except his son Will (Billy Crudup), who has also left home but in this case to get out from under his father?s considerable shadow. When Edward becomes ill and his wife, Sandra (Jessica Lange), tries to reconcile them, Will embarks on his own personal journey trying to separate the myth from the reality of his father?s life and come to terms with the man?s giant feats and great failings. The other travelers on this wondrous and moving voyage include Helena Bonham Carter as a woman who appears in different forms - including an enchanted witch. Alison Lohman portrays the young Sandra, the one true love of Edward?s life, and newcomer Marion Cotillard plays Will?s wife, Josephine. Steve Buscemi is the rueful poet turned bank robber turned Wall Street baron Norther Winslow and Danny DeVito plays Amos Calloway, the bamboozling owner and ringmaster of a traveling circus.
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