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Big Fish
Will Bloom, the international journalist, and his wife, French photojournalist Josephine Blum, are leaving for Paris to return to Ashton, Alabama, the birthplace of Will. They both left in mysterious circumstances on the grounds that his father Edward Bloom had cancer but his father soon died after a long period of treatment. Although the mother of Edward's wife, Sandra Blum, has been contacted, Will has been neglected for three years since his wedding. Over time, after Edward's death, his father's case will be one of Edward's fiction.
5 September 1946, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
13 December 1957, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
12 February 1936, Blairsville, Georgia, USA
18 September 1979, Palm Springs, California, USA
4 September 1995, Thousand Oaks, California, USA
24 July 1981, Wetumpka, Alabama, USA
October 18, 2008
Never has going fishing or getting caught been such a treat.
December 26, 2003
A disappointingly dull thud of a fantasy.
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.
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 22, 2010
Delightful, sad father-son story for teens and up.
August 07, 2004
Overall, the film feels like it issues from a place Burton doesn't inhabit.
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.
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.
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.
January 12, 2016
the father-and-son story to beat all father-and-son stories