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 and as a dying father by Albert Finney. Edward's son Will (Billy Crudup) 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 idealised southern town, a travelling circus and much more. The result is sweet but--thanks to the director's dark and clever sensibility--never saccharine. The film also features Jessica Lange, Alison Lohman, Helena Bonham Carter, Danny DeVito and Steve Buscemi. --Bret Fetzer
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Ewan McGregor | Ed Bloom (young) |
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Albert Finney | Ed Bloom (senior) |
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Billy Crudup | Will Bloom |
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Jessica Lange | Sandra Bloom (senior) |
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Helena Bonham Carter | Jenny (young & senior) & The Witch |
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Alison Lohman | Sandra Bloom (young) |
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Robert Guillaume | Dr. Bennett (senior) |
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Marion Cotillard | Josephine |
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Matthew McGrory | Karl the Giant |
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David Denman | Don Price (age 18-22) |
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Missi Pyle | Mildred |
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Loudon Wainwright III | Beamen |
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Ada Tai | Ping |
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Arlene Tai | Jing |
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Steve Buscemi | Norther Winslow |
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Danny DeVito | Amos Calloway |
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Deep Roy | Mr. Soggybottom |
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Perry Walston | Ed Bloom (age 10) |
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Hailey Anne Nelson | Jenny (age 8) |
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Grayson Stone | Will Bloom (age 6-8) |
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R. Keith Harris | Ed's Father |
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Karla Droege | Ed's Mother |
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Zac Gardner | Zacky Price (age 10) |
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John Lowell | Don Price (age 12) |
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Darrell Vanterpool | Wilbur (age 10) |
| Director | Tim Burton |
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| Writer | Daniel Wallace, John August | |
| Producer | Bruce Cohen, Katterli Frauenfelder, Dan Jinks, Arne Schmidt, Richard D. Zanuck | |
| Musician | Danny Elfman | |
| Photography | Philippe Rousselot | |
| Packaging | Keep Case |
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| Nr Discs | 1 |
| Screen Ratios | Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1) |
| Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital 5.1 [English] Dolby Digital 5.1 [Hungarian] Dolby Digital 5.1 [Italian] Dolby Digital 5.1 Dolby Digital Stereo |
| Subtitles | Arabic | Danish | English | English (Closed Captioned) | Finnish | Greek | Italian | Norwegian | Polish | Swedish |
| Distributor | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |
| Layers | Single side, Dual layer |
| Edition Release Date | Jun 07, 2004 |