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Big Fish
When Edward Bloom becomes ill, his son, William, travels to be with him. Desperate to know the complicated man before it's too late, William sets out, trying to unravel fact from fiction.
1945, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
5 September 1946, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
27 August 1994, Durham, North Carolina, USA
19 September 1969, Bakersfield, California, USA
1969
23 November 1992, Franklin, Tennessee, USA
31 August 1990, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
13 December 1957, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
October 18, 2008
Never has going fishing or getting caught been such a treat.
December 26, 2003
A long-winded indulgence in tear-and-a-smile whimsy.
February 09, 2006
The film doesn't so much reject history as selectively rewrite it to its own reactionary, even offensive ends. This might perhaps be just about tolerable were the film funny, illuminating, insightful or moving. It is not.
December 22, 2010
Delightful, sad father-son story for teens and up.
March 16, 2004
Burton shows the rivalry between father and son but not the rancor, which seems to fit with the film's calm lyricism. But the father-son conflict is meant as the dramatic crux, and a forceful actor would have given it some much-needed bite.
September 25, 2010
Reliant more on powerful familial emotions than wacky splendor, "Big Fish" treads as close to our real world as Tim Burton ever could - a melancholy dissection of paternal distance and never truly knowing how many lives those we love can truly affect.
December 26, 2003
A disappointingly dull thud of a fantasy.
August 21, 2009
Burton, favoring form over content, flavor over fact, has been often criticized for not knowing how to bring his work to satisfactory resolution. But I'd call that a good thing. Blame it on his dad.
January 08, 2004
A compelling look at the relationships between fathers and sons, and the child coming to terms with the parent's mortality.
April 29, 2009
Burton invokes the imagination from his crowd and succeeds in making us gasp in wonder.
January 12, 2016
the father-and-son story to beat all father-and-son stories
August 07, 2004
Overall, the film feels like it issues from a place Burton doesn't inhabit.
