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Big Fish
This fantastical movie starts with Will Bloom (Billy Crudup) leaving his home in Paris to return to America to see his father, Edward Bloom (Albert Finney), who is dying of cancer. Not sure of the truth of his father's life as told by his father, Will returns home determined to make amends, put to rest the stories he had heard so often as a child and extract the truth about his father's life. Both his mother, Sandra Bloom (Jessica Lange), and his wife, encourage Will to talk to his father. Begrudgingly happy, the father complies and proceeds to tell Will of his life. Ewan McGregor as a young Edward Bloom reenacts all of the stories that Will heard repeatedly as a child. As a youth, Edward Bloom meets eccentric characters and experiences that are often associated with the fancy of young, actively imaginative minds. Fact or fiction is for Will to discover and accept in his own time.

This is a movie for the lover of shows like "Forrest Gump". Over the top fantasy and flat characters make this movie a real snoozer. The young Edward Bloom successfully tackles everything with a smile. Not one person or thing that the young Edward Bloom meets or experiences surprises or stumps him; the young Edward Bloom moves forward unflinchingly and without hesitation.

Unfortunately it takes about 2 hours to get to the best part of the movie - the end- not because the movie finally ends, but because everything is tied together in a most appropriate way.

This movie adapted from a novel by Daniel Wallace and directed by Tim Burton is best saved until it comes out on the $.99 shelf of your local video store.

posted by reviewer @ 1:39 PM