Big Fish: Book vs. Movie
Tim Burton's 2003 film Big Fish adapts Daniel Wallace's 1998 book Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions. A son tries to understand his father through the elaborate stories he tells about his life.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Daniel Wallace
- Year
- 1998
- Pages
- 196Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 5 hr 23 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Tom Stechschulte
William Bloom sits with his dying father, trying to find a person beneath a lifetime of jokes and unlikely stories. Edward's absences have left William with fragments, so he pieces together a life through tales of strange encounters, impossible achievements, and journeys away from home. In the telling, admiration for his father's inventiveness sits alongside the hurt of never quite knowing him.
- Director
- Tim Burton
- Writer
- Daniel Wallace, Dan Jinks, John August, Richard D. Zanuck
- Year
- 2003
- Runtime
- 2 hrWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange
- Genre
- Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, magic realist, werewolf
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Will Bloom returns home as his father's health declines, still frustrated by Edward's habit of turning every memory into an extravagant adventure. Stories of a giant, a witch, and an improbable courtship offer little of the straightforward truth Will wants. Trying to understand the man behind them sends him back through a life he has spent years dismissing as fiction.
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