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This Thanks­giv­ing hol­i­day, I’m look­ing for­ward to this movie; Big Fish (directed by Tim Bur­ton). Ever since Beetle­juice, Edward Scis­sorhands and Night­mare Before Christ­mas I have been a big fan of Burton’s on-screen visions. To me, they remind me of elab­o­rate fairy tales meshed with con­trast and vivid imagery.

The premise to Big Fish is as follows:

“William Bloom (Crudup) tries to learn more about his dying father, Edward (Finney), by piec­ing together the facts out of the var­i­ous fan­tas­tic tales and leg­ends of epic pro­por­tions he’s been told over the years (with McGre­gor play­ing the young ver­sion of Edward in these “retellings” of his sto­ries). Edward was a trav­el­ling sales­man, often far from home, and it’s those jour­neys through­out the South that are the seed of his son’s tales. There are four sep­a­rate tales told, each fan­tas­tic and wild, of Edward’s life, with each end­ing then with him at his deathbed, as William tries to under­stand his father’s great deeds, and fail­ures. The titles of the leg­ends (in the book) are “In Which He Speaks to Ani­mals,” “How He Tamed the Giant,” “How He Saved My Life,” and “His Immor­tal­ity.” Oh, and as you might guess from the title, one of them has a giant fish.”

Look for Big Fish to hit the­atres this Thanks­giv­ing holiday.