Big

Big (1988) is Penny Marshall's comedy starring Tom Hanks, and you can watch it online on iFILM. Twelve-year-old Josh is turned away from a fairground ride for being too short, so he sulks and makes a wish at a battered Zoltar fortune machine: he wants to be big. Next morning he wakes up in the body of a thirty-year-old man.

His own mother takes him for an intruder, so Josh flees to New York, rents a grubby room and finds a job while his vanished kid self is reported missing. By chance he lands at MacMillan's toy company, where he beats the grown-ups at their own game, testing toys the way a child actually feels them and rocketing up the ranks. The famous bit: Josh and his boss (Robert Loggia) tap out a tune with their feet on the giant floor piano at FAO Schwarz. A colleague, Susan (Elizabeth Perkins), falls for him, with no idea who he really is.

The part earned Tom Hanks his first Oscar nomination, and Penny Marshall became the first woman to direct a film that crossed a hundred million at the box office. Stream Big (1988) online on iFILM.