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Big Fish - 1/9/04 - PG-13 - 110m
Ewan
McGregor - Young Ed Bloom
Albert Finney - Senior Ed Bloom
Billy Crudup - Will Bloom
Director: Tim Burton
Written by: Daniel Wallace (Novel)
John August (Screenplay)
Studio: Sony Pictures
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LYN
Nutshell: Will Bloom (Billy Crudup) has become disenchanted with
his father Ed Bloom's (Albert Finney / Ewan McGregor) love of telling
tall tales so much so that he has disconnected himself from his father's
life. All this disdain based on the assumption his father's stories are
so outlandishly untrue and that he has been lied to all of his life, therefore
he doesn't know who this person is that calls himself his father. So,
in turn if his father insists on continuing the facade, then why bother
with him, until of course his father falls ill . . .
Hmmm . . . well as a purveyor
of the occasional yarn or two myself, I fell in love with this film almost
immediately. 
It is simply
a wondrous story about one's life. Whether ordinary or extraordinary it
doesn't matter, it's all about the telling of the tale, one in which Tim
Burton and cast do an excellent job. It was just invigorating to just
sit back and let the film envelop me. Although it seems that the story
is so whimsical at times that there would be nothing that could be believed
and you start to feel the film is nothing more than a better version of
"The Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen". But, that is part
of the film's charm and an important part of any storytelling. You take
a good story and add a little adjustment to the truth, and you have a
great story. All in all, it was a charming story of one man's life and
the people he touched along the way, simply by being nothing more than
just. . .himself. And that in and of itself makes this film worthwhile
to see.
Lyn
