Big Fish
Will Bloom is a talented international journalist and his wife, French photojournalist Josephine Blum, pregnant with their first child, leaves Paris to return to Ashton, Alabama. There will be Will's hometown, where they both left on the grounds that his father Edward Bloom had cancer but soon died. Although contact with Will's mother, Sandra Bloom, Will has been neglected by his father for three years since his wedding. His father's case may be one of Edward's fiction before his death.
23 November 1992, Franklin, Tennessee, USA
17 May 1973, West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
27 July 1961, Conway, Arkansas, USA
14 August 1959, Homestead AFB, Florida, USA
8 July 1937, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
9 May 1936, Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK
18 September 1979, Palm Springs, California, USA
17 November 1944, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA
25 July 1973, Newport Beach, California, USA
1 December 1957, Nairobi, Kenya
25 December 1967, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
14 September 1994, USA
24 July 1981, Wetumpka, Alabama, USA
12 February 1936, Blairsville, Georgia, USA
30 November 1927, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
1956
13 April 1994, USA
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.
August 07, 2004
Overall, the film feels like it issues from a place Burton doesn't inhabit.
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 12, 2016
the father-and-son story to beat all father-and-son stories
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.
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 22, 2010
Delightful, sad father-son story for teens and up.
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.
April 29, 2009
Burton invokes the imagination from his crowd and succeeds in making us gasp in wonder.
January 08, 2004
A compelling look at the relationships between fathers and sons, and the child coming to terms with the parent's mortality.
