When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big, he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight, but he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups, including getting a job and having his first romantic encounter with a woman.
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Tom Hanks
Josh
Elizabeth Perkins
Susan
Robert Loggia
MacMillan
John Heard
Paul
Jared Rushton
Billy
Jon Lovitz
Scotty Brennen
David Moscow
Young Josh
Mercedes Ruehl
Mrs. Baskin
Harvey Miller
Personnel Director
Debra Jo Rupp
Miss Patterson
Director
Penny Marshall
Tagline
"Have you ever had a really big secret?"
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$18,000,000
Revenue
$151,927,281
Production
American Entertainment Partners II L.P., Gracie Films, 20th Century Fox
Andre Gonzales
April 30, 2023
Love this movie growing up. Everytime I went to a fair I was always hoping to find a machine like this. Still one of my favorite movies of all time.
CinemaSerf
November 21, 2025
Oh, if only I was still young enough to wish I was older! That’s the problem facing the young “Josh” (David Moscow) who just wants to get all the school and puberty malarkey over and done with. Well a strange looking slot machine called “Zoltar” offers him a wish in return for his quarter. Of course, he goes home to bed thinking it’s all nonsense, but when he awakens in the morning suffice to say ...
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