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Article: Film: DVD: Burton's charming circus fable is no freak result; Big Fish (Cert PG,120 mins) Comedy/Drama, starring: Ewan McGregor,Albert Finney,Billy Crudup,Jessica Lange,Alison Lohman,Helena Bonham Carter,Steve Buscemi,Danny DeVito.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- June 4, 2004
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WILL Bloom (Crudup)is a journalist on a quest for the truth. He has spent his entire life listening to his gregarious father,Edward (Finney), regale family and friends with his epic adventures as a young man (McGregor),crossing paths with freaks and misfits including a kind-hearted giant called Karl, a werewolf and conjoined Korean lounge singers, to name but a few.
Edward's tall tales never fail to delight his adoring wife Sandra (Lange),but Will has grown weary of the elaborate fantasies and believes his old man to be a liar and a fraud.
Having left home to escape from his father's considerable shadow and married the beautiful Josephine ...