from the age of 10
Joshua Baskin, a 12-year-old boy, spends a rather unpleasant evening at his town’s amusement fair: because he is too small, he is banned from riding the park’s most impressive attraction, so he is forced to let the girl go. In love with another guy on the board.
As he sadly walks through the party halls, he passes a strange vending machine. This robotic genius named Zoltar with a crystal ball offers to grant him one wish in exchange for a coin. Then Josh wants to be “big”.
The next day, when he wakes up as an adult, his mother kicks him out of the house, dismisses him as a burglar, and is now forced to escape his original appearance. Meanwhile, he decides to live the high life in New York and find a job at a famous toy store.
Who better than Tom Hanks to play the role of a child transformed into an adult? The famous American actress, still at the beginning of her career and herself quite young when she played a big role (she was about thirty at the time), was able to bring all her innocence and ingenuity to her.
The natural sincerity and honesty of the actor, together with his incredible talent (which the world began to discover then), allows the viewer to believe what he sees and accept without the slightest reservation that it is somewhat sad and disoriented. The young man is actually a 12-year-old boy who is the victim of a spell.
Tom Hanks’ excellent performance in several memorable sequences (such as the giant piano in Schwartz’s shop, which is Andrew Garfield’s favorite sequence), earned him his first Oscar nomination in 1988. incentives that have been implemented. For him five years later with Philadelphia and the following year again with Forrest Gump.
As for the director of the film Penny Marshall (of which the second feature was great), he continued his career by signing The Awakening (with Robert De Niro and Robin Williams) as well as The Pastor’s Wife (with Whitney Houston and Denzel). Washington).
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