The body-change flick par excellence, this high-concept comedy spun a gargantuan smash out of ‘what if boy trapped in adult’s body?’
The biggest difference between Big and this clear descendant isn’t that the protagonist role has switched to the distaff side.
In the weekly column Extra Credit, Charles Bramesco recommends supplemental viewing for moviegoers whose interests have been piqued by a given week’s big new release.
The body-change script was a constant standby in this particular vein of mainstream filmmaking, a fish-out-of-water premise out of its own skin.