Big Fish (2003)
76 %
Reviews Counted: 202 Fresh: 154 Rotten:48 Average Rating: 7.2/10
Consensus:
A charming father-and-son tale filled with typical Tim Burton flourishes.
Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins
Theatrical Release: Dec 10, 2003 Limited
Box Office: $66,257,002
Synopsis: In Tim Burton's family film BIG FISH, a wonderful storyteller named Edward Bloom (Albert Finney), who lives in a small town in Alabama, recounts tall tales of his wild worldly adventures. These are shown in flashback with Ewan McGregor playing the young Bloom. Wonderful special effects and... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Alison Lohman
Director: Tim Burton
Screenwriter: John August
Producer: Richard D. Zanuck, Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks
Composer: Danny Elfman
Screenwriter: John August
Producer: Richard D. Zanuck, Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks
Composer: Danny Elfman
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I enjoyed Big Fish more than any film Burton has been involved with since maybe Nightmare Before Christmas.
07/23/07
Las historias pueden elevarnos, liberarnos, engrandecernos, permitirnos escapar. El problema en el caso de Edward Bloom es que no conocemos ni al prisionero, ni a la prisión.
05/02/06
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02/09/06
Plays to Burton's strengths as an auteur of fantasy colliding with reality.
11/11/05
An ebullient tall tale about the magic of imagination and the power of myth.
05/03/05
[Burton] celebrates the empty imaginings of the lost, because he assumes there is no real liberation, there is no glory awaiting us, except that which we invent for ourselves.
01/15/05
Un film délicieux que l’on écoute avec légèreté et qui fait passer un bon moment grâce à son humour, sa féerie, mais aussi dans la façon dont il nous touche.
12/16/04
Burton has crafted a sweet yet bizarre film seeming at times like 'The Twilight Zone' in Oz.
10/30/04
A heartwarming, nostalgic story of tall tales and even taller dreams.
08/13/04
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