Big Fish

Big Fish2003

Stars: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 125 minutes

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 (Mou… more »



Will Bloom:
You know about icebergs, dad?

Senior Ed Bloom:
Do I? I saw an iceberg once. They were hauling it down to Texas for drinking water. They didn't count on there being an elephant frozen inside. The wooly kind. A mammoth.

Will Bloom:
Dad!

Senior Ed Bloom:
What?

Will Bloom:
I'm not trying to make a metaphor here.

Senior Ed Bloom:
Well you shouldn't have started with a question, because people want to answer a question. You should've started with "the thing about icebergs is."

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