Big Fish movie

A story about a son trying to learn about his dying father by reliving stories and myths his father told him about himself.

It is loosely based on the novel Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions by Daniel Wallace, and starred Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Alison Lohman, Steve Buscemi, Helena Bonham Carter and Danny DeVito, amongst others.Will Bloom (Crudup) returns to his family home in Alabama, having spent the past three years not talking to his father Edward (Finney). Dying, Edward recounts his life story in his own unique, exaggerated way, full of fantastic events (portrayed in these flashbacks by McGregor). Will tries to get to know his father and find the truth, discovering that his father did lead an extraordinary life and that storytelling is who he is.The film was initially planned to be directed by Steven Spielberg before Burton took on the project, following the death of his own father.

The film was mostly shot in Alabama, and had a much less gothic tone than Burtons other films such as Edward Scissorhands and Sleepy Hollow. Critics hailed the film as Burtons masterpiece, and it received four Golden Globe nominations and one Oscar nomination for Danny Elfmans original score.PlotEdward Bloom tells his son Will the same tale over the years: on the day he was born, he was out catching an enormous uncatchable fish with his wedding ring. By the time he tells this at his Wills wedding reception, their relationship has become strained due to the many tall tales, and they do not talk to each other for three years. Will becomes a journalist in Paris. When his fathers health starts to fail, Will and his wife Josephine return to Alabama. On the plane, Will recalls his fathers tale of how he braved a swamp as a child, and met a witch who showed him his death in her glass eye.

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Big Fish Cast

• Ada Tai
• Albert Finney
• Alison Lohman
• Arlene Tai
• Billy Crudup
• David Denman
• Helena Bonham Carter
• Jessica Lange
• Loudon Wainwright III
• Marion Cotillard
• Matthew McGrory
• Missi Pyle
• Robert Guillaume
• Steve Buscemi