Product Description
To get to know the real man behind the myth, a son begins piecing together a true picture of his father from snippets of amazing stories and magical tales of his youth in this brilliantly fantastical movie from the incredible imagination of director Tim Burton.
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After a string of mediocre movies, director Tim Burton regains his footing as he shifts from macabre fairy tales to Southern tall tales. Big Fish twines in and out of the oversized stories of Edward Bloom, played as a young man by Ewan McGregor (Moulin Rouge, Down with Love) and as a dying father by Albert Finney (Tom Jones). Edward's son Will (Billy Crudup, Almost Famous) sits by his father's bedside but has little patience with the old man's fables, because he feels these stories have kept him from knowing who his father really is. Burton dives into Bloom's imagination with zest, sending the determined young man into haunted woods, an idealized Southern town, a traveling circus, and much more. The result is sweet but--thanks to the director's dark and clever sensibility--never saccharine. Also featuring Jessica Lange, Alison Lohman, Helena Bonham Carter, Danny DeVito, and Steve Buscemi. --Bret Fetzer
- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- MPAA rating : PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
- Product Dimensions : 6.5 x 5.25 x 0.3 inches; 0.01 ounces
- Director : Tim Burton
- Media Format : Blu-ray, Dolby, Subtitled, Anamorphic, Widescreen, Color
- Run time : 2 hours and 5 minutes
- Release date : March 20, 2007
- Actors : Billy Crudup, Hailey Anne Nelson, Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Jessica Lange
- Dubbed: : French
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Korean, Thai
- Producers : Dan Jinks, Bruce Cohen, Richard D. Zanuck
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio : Columbia Pictures
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1