Tim Burton	...	(Director)
Daniel Wallace, John August	...	(Writer)
Ewan McGregor	...	Younger Ed Bloom
Albert Finney	...	Older Ed Bloom
Billy Crudup	...	Will Bloom
Jessica Lange	...	Older Sandra Bloom
Helena Bonham Carter	...	Younger & Older Jenny/The Witch
Alison Lohman	...	Younger Sandra Bloom
Robert Guillaume	...	Older Dr. Bennett
Marion Cotillard	...	Josephine
Matthew McGrory	...	Karl the Giant
David Denman	...	Don Price - Age 18-22
Missi Pyle	...	Mildred
Loudon Wainwright III	...	Beamen (as Loudon Wainwright)
Ada Tai	...	Ping
Arlene Tai	...	Jing
Steve Buscemi	...	Norther Winslow

Comments: An adventure as big as life itself.

Summary: After a string of mediocre movies, director Tim Burton regains his footing as he shifts from macabre fairy tales to Southern tall tales. "Big Fish" twines in and out of the oversized stories of Edward Bloom, played as a young man by Ewan McGregor ("Moulin Rouge", "Down with Love") and as a dying father by Albert Finney ("Tom Jones"). Edward's son Will (Billy Crudup, "Almost Famous") sits by his father's bedside but has little patience with the old man's fables, because he feels these stories have kept him from knowing who his father really is. Burton dives into Bloom's imagination with zest, sending the determined young man into haunted woods, an idealized Southern town, a traveling circus, and much more. The result is sweet but--thanks to the director's dark and clever sensibility--never saccharine. Also featuring Jessica Lange, Alison Lohman, Helena Bonham Carter, Danny DeVito, and Steve Buscemi. "--Bret Fetzer"