Story Line
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.
“Have you ever had a really big secret?”
Top Cast
Tom Hanks
Josh Baskin
Elizabeth Perkins
Susan
Robert Loggia
MacMillan
John Heard
Paul
Jared Rushton
Billy
David Moscow
Young Josh
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Rating
7.2/ 10
Release Date
1988-06-03
Runtime
1h 44m
Genres
FantasyDramaComedy
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User Reviews (2)
Andre Gonzales
7/10
•4/30/2023Love 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
7/10
•11/21/2025Oh, 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” offe...