Josh………….……Tom Hanks
Billy…………...Jared Rushton
Susan……..Elizabeth Perkins
MacMillan……Robert Loggia
Paul…….….….….John Heard
Young Josh….David Moscow
Big was directed by Penny Marshall (A League of Their Own, 1992) and written by Gary Ross (Seabiscuit, 2003) and Anne Speilberg, sister of Steven Speilberg. The film was significantly successful. It was nominated for two 1989 Academy Awards, and won three Saturn Awards, an ASCAP Award, and American Comedy Award, a Golden Globe, an LAFCA Award, and a People's Choice Award. Tom Hanks' performance won five of the movie's eight awards, and was clearly a major reason for the film's success, as demonstrated by a less triumphant attempt in 1996 to turn the film to a Broadway musical.