Big Fish
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United Press International journalist Will Bloom and his French freelance photojournalist wife Josephine Bloom, who is pregnant with their first child, leave their Paris base to return to Will's hometown of Ashton, Alabama on the news that his father, Edward Bloom, stricken with cancer, will soon die, he being taken off chemotherapy treatment. Although connected indirectly through Will's mother/Edward's wife, Sandra Bloom, Will has been estranged from his father for three yea... (Full plot summary below)

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United Press International journalist Will Bloom and his French freelance photojournalist wife Josephine Bloom, who is pregnant with their first child, leave their Paris base to return to Will's hometown of Ashton, Alabama on the news that his father, Edward Bloom, stricken with cancer, will soon die, he being taken off chemotherapy treatment. Although connected indirectly through Will's mother/Edward's wife, Sandra Bloom, Will has been estranged from his father for three years since his and Josephine's wedding. Will's issue with his father is the fanciful tales Edward has told of his life all his life, not only to Will but the whole world. As a child when Edward was largely absent as a traveling salesman, Will believed those stories, but now realizes that he does not know his father, who, as he continues to tell these stories, he will never get to know unless Edward comes clean with the truth before he dies. On the brink of his own family life beginning, Will does not want to be the kind of father Edward has been to him. One of those stories from Edward's childhood - that he saw his own death in the glass eye of a witch - led to him embracing life since he would not have to fear death knowing when and how it would eventually come. The question is whether Will will be able to reconcile Edward's stories against his real life, either directly from Edward before he dies and/or from other sources, and thus allow Will to come to a new understanding of himself and his life, past, present and future.

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Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) - 10/10 by Jeffrey WesthoffBurton's floundering has ended. With Big Fish he finds a movie that allows him a much-needed boost of maturity.
Metro Weekly (Washington, DC) - 10/10 by Randy ShulmanBig Fish moves you in inexplicable, joyful ways. It's a beauty of a whopper.
Slant Magazine - 10/10 by Ed GonzalezBig Fish is love and death, Burton style.
Arizona Daily Star - 10/10 by Phil VillarrealThe stories are gloriously soaked in Americana and, as always in Burton films, are visually lush and immaculately detailed.
Des Moines Register - 10/10 by Jeffrey BrunerA perfect marriage of story and director, Tim Burton has achieved maturity as a filmmaker while keeping his ability to tell a larger-than-life story.
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) - 10/10 by Jeff ViceSentimental, even a bit treacly, but it's also appealing and full of warmth. And it's probably [Burton's] best film.
Time Out - 10/10 by Geoff AndrewThe film doesn't so much reject history as selectively rewrite it to its own reactionary, even offensive ends. This might perhaps be just about tolerable were the film funny, illuminating, insightful or moving. It is not.
The Film Yap - 10/10 by Nick RogersReliant more on powerful familial emotions than wacky splendor, "Big Fish" treads as close to our real world as Tim Burton ever could - a melancholy dissection of paternal distance and never truly knowing how many lives those we love can truly affect.
Blunt Review - 10/10 by Emily BluntBig Fish, as with all director Tim Burton's film soirees, assists in transporting us into that little crevice of our minds we'd misplaced somewhere along the way...
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) - 10/10 by Linda CookSometimes, the telling of the tale is more important than the story itself.

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