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Big • The Next Reel
“This doesn’t just happen. This guy — this doesn’t happen. He doesn’t just come to a meeting and say ‘bugs.’”
The script came easily to Gary Ross & Anne Spielberg, but finding the right team and cast to make Big still took some time. By the time the film released in theatres, it was the fourth body-switching comedy to come out in a few years, even though it had been the first to be greenlit. But the script was smart and didn’t truck in dumb jokes, the casting was impeccable, and Penny Marshall found a way to navigate the fantasy and romantic nature of the film, and because of all these…
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