BIG and the Wisdom of Staying Young & Playful- Episode #840
Zen Pop
Todd and Cathy Adams
4.9 • 637 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
To kick off Tom Hanks month, Cathy and Todd revisit Big, the 1988 classic that made him a star and reminded us what it means to grow up too fast. The movie blends humor, heart, and magic (and a somewhat inappropriate romance), letting us laugh at the absurdity of adult life while remembering what it felt like to be young. They talk about why Big still matters, why friendship is at the core of the story, and how Penny Marshall’s direction brought depth to a wild premise. They also discuss what the story reveals about growing up, parenting, and the pressure to “perform” adulthood.
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| 0:00.0 | My eyes get me bigger. |
| 0:03.0 | Tom Hanks. |
| 0:04.0 | Big. |
| 0:06.0 | I turned it to a grown-up, Mom. |
| 0:08.0 | I made this wish on a machine, and it turned me into a grown-up. |
| 0:11.0 | Now what? |
| 0:12.0 | You get a job? |
| 0:13.0 | Can not get a job. |
| 0:15.0 | I play with all this stuff. |
| 0:18.0 | And then I tell him what I think. |
| 0:20.0 | Can they pay you for that? |
| 0:21.7 | Sucker! |
| 0:22.8 | Vice President, he's only been here a week. |
| 0:25.1 | See that girl over there in the red? |
| 0:27.0 | Shored up her legs around you so tight. |
| 0:28.4 | You'll be begging for mercy. |
| 0:31.5 | Well, I'll stay away from her then. |
| 0:33.7 | I'm going to stay away from her. |
| 0:35.7 | Whatever her name is. |
| 0:36.5 | You can tell that that was an old, old trailer. Yes. It was a little what I like to call furry, like fuzzy. Sound quality is a little compromise. Yes. And it's just, we weren't very good at telling stories via trailers back then. Now it's like an art form. I know. Well, I know. I kind of feel like someone else was in charge of it. Like, what's the Christmas movie where they, um, where the Cameron Dia's character is in charge of trailers? Yes, the holiday. The holiday. Yes. And that's a good example of like what an art form it is. And there are many directors who direct movies now who insist on directing their own |
| 1:11.4 | trailer. Interesting. It's a part of the negotiations. It's a part of the negotiation, which doesn't that |
| 1:15.9 | make sense? There are so many movies that have come out that I've watched the trailer and been like, |
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