Big Fish (2003)
Country: US
Technical: col/1.37:1 125m
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Alison Lohman, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Buscemi, Marion Cotillard
Synopsis:
A young man eventually adjusts to having a father teller of tall tales when he discovers they may not be lies after all.
Review:
The stories, about giant fish, giant men, and lost Norman Rockwell-style townsfolk, are perhaps more suggestive of Terry Gilliam than Tim Burton, until you examine the homage to smalltown Americana they represent, at which point you cannot help but think of Frank Capra. It does not really work as a film, partly because of the constant to-ing and fro-ing in time between Bloom senior and Bloom as a younger man, but offers painfree and at times touching moments of pathos. McGregor feels miscast, however, and the lack of a gothic edginess left the public indifferent.
Country: US
Technical: col/1.37:1 125m
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Alison Lohman, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Buscemi, Marion Cotillard
Synopsis:
A young man eventually adjusts to having a father teller of tall tales when he discovers they may not be lies after all.
Review:
The stories, about giant fish, giant men, and lost Norman Rockwell-style townsfolk, are perhaps more suggestive of Terry Gilliam than Tim Burton, until you examine the homage to smalltown Americana they represent, at which point you cannot help but think of Frank Capra. It does not really work as a film, partly because of the constant to-ing and fro-ing in time between Bloom senior and Bloom as a younger man, but offers painfree and at times touching moments of pathos. McGregor feels miscast, however, and the lack of a gothic edginess left the public indifferent.
Country: US
Technical: col/1.37:1 125m
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Alison Lohman, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter, Steve Buscemi, Marion Cotillard
Synopsis:
A young man eventually adjusts to having a father teller of tall tales when he discovers they may not be lies after all.
Review:
The stories, about giant fish, giant men, and lost Norman Rockwell-style townsfolk, are perhaps more suggestive of Terry Gilliam than Tim Burton, until you examine the homage to smalltown Americana they represent, at which point you cannot help but think of Frank Capra. It does not really work as a film, partly because of the constant to-ing and fro-ing in time between Bloom senior and Bloom as a younger man, but offers painfree and at times touching moments of pathos. McGregor feels miscast, however, and the lack of a gothic edginess left the public indifferent.