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It's taken a damn long time to get around to posting this! Right before the world fell apart and we all started isolating, I had my brother and nephews over to watch Big. It was a lovely evening! We ate like 12 year olds at a carnival - Corn dogs, hot dogs, fries, onion rings, and snow cones!
The state of the world has really thrown us for a loop and I've been trying to stay sane while homeschooling 2 kids on top of all the other mom duties. We totally fell off of our Hanks mission, but we're back at it now!
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If you've been living under a rock and haven't ever seen this movie, then you should know the premise is that a young boy, Josh Baskin, wishes on a fortune teller machine at a carnival that he wants to be big. The next morning he wakes up as a full grown adult - our beloved Tom Hanks. There are very few people who could have pulled off this role. Hanks performed so well that you never question there was a 12 year old's mind on the inside. He has to flee his house, his mother terrified of a grown man in her house and her young boy missing. He goes to the city and manages to find a place to live, get a job at a toy manufacturer, and land himself a girlfriend.
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The story follows Josh's journey navigating the adult world - what it's like to get a paycheck, paying for rent, learning how to dress up for fancy events, how to conduct himself in meetings, how to talk to women, and eventually, what it's like to *ahem* become a man. It's a little twisted, that essentially a 12 year old sleeps with a grown woman, but somehow its not an issue? Oh, 80's! You so crazy! In the end, he chooses to go back to being a kid, with a wealth of knowledge to get him through his adolescence. What I want to know is what story did he tell his mom when he got back home?!
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