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* EsotericHappyEnding: Josh is most likely in for a very rough ride as he returns to his former kid life.
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* EsotericHappyEnding: Josh is most likely in for a very rough ride as he returns to his former kid life. His options for explaining his disappearance don't seem to have many good outcomes:
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* EsotericHappyEnding: {{Website/Cracked}} has a particularly disturbing interpretation regarding [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18793_5-reasons-big-had-most-depressing-happy-ending-ever.html the movie's ending]].
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* EsotericHappyEnding: {{Website/Cracked}} Josh is most likely in for a very rough ride as he returns to his former kid life.
** If he decides to spend the rest of his life spinning a false narrative about how he was abducted, he'll get grilled by the police and his mother for details.
*** Will they believe him and send him to therapy for trauma?
*** Will his story fall apart, getting him accused of running away and lying about it?
** If he decides to tell the truth, he'll have to convince everyone that magic is real.
*** Will he fail to prove it and land himself in trouble for lying or even institutionalized for having a psychotic break?
*** Will he actually prove that Zoltar grants wishes, leading a future where whoever controls Zoltar hasa particularly disturbing interpretation regarding [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18793_5-reasons-big-had-most-depressing-happy-ending-ever.html the movie's ending]].power over reality?
** If he decides to spend the rest of his life spinning a false narrative about how he was abducted, he'll get grilled by the police and his mother for details.
*** Will they believe him and send him to therapy for trauma?
*** Will his story fall apart, getting him accused of running away and lying about it?
** If he decides to tell the truth, he'll have to convince everyone that magic is real.
*** Will he fail to prove it and land himself in trouble for lying or even institutionalized for having a psychotic break?
*** Will he actually prove that Zoltar grants wishes, leading a future where whoever controls Zoltar has
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Elaborated a bit on this point, though Susan didn't know he was underage and shouldn't be demonized for what she did.
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* ValuesDissonance: Josh and Susan's relationship is largely portrayed in the film as sweet and romantic, but many people have pointed out that a 30 year old woman having a romantic (and implied to be sexual) relationship with a 13 year old boy inherently gross and problematic, not to mention that it technically counts as statutory rape. Susan however didn't know about Josh's age however.
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* ValuesDissonance: Josh and Susan's relationship is largely portrayed in the film as sweet and romantic, but many people have pointed out that a 30 year old 30-year-old woman having a romantic (and implied to be sexual) relationship with a 13 year old 13-year-old boy inherently gross and problematic, not to mention that it technically counts as statutory rape. Even if Susan however didn't know about Josh's age however.Josh was technically underage, it's still a shaky relationship that rings problematic in the modern-day
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* ValuesDissonance: Josh and Susan's relationship is largely portrayed in the film as sweet and romantic, but many people have pointed out that a 30 year old woman having a romantic (and implied to be sexual) relationship with a 13 year old boy inherently gross and problematic, not to mention that it technically counts as statutory rape. Susan however didn't know about Josh's age however.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: Josh's idea for a robot toy that transforms into a bug. The [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Insecticon_(G1) Insecticons]] had already been issued three years before the movie's release.
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* MisBlamed: For a time, in Italy, this movie was considered an unofficial remake of "Da Grande" (an Italian movie with a very similar plot, aired a year before "Big"). It was actually just a coincidence, as the OvernightAgeUp theme had already been used in 1950s American movies.
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* MisBlamed: For a time, time in Italy, this movie was considered an unofficial remake of "Da Grande" (an Italian movie with a very similar plot, aired a year before "Big"). It was actually just a coincidence, as the OvernightAgeUp theme had already been experiencing a revitalization at the time (and even before that, Hollywood had used in the trope before, having been a staple for 1950s American movies.movies).
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** The Zoltar machine. Its overall appearance is bad enough (especially the glowing eyes when it's "working"), but the breathing sound it makes and the way the mouth opens and closes hugely is extremely disturbing. The scene when Josh discovers it's not plugged in thus manages to actually be chilling.
** The scene where Josh's mother chases his adult self out of the house with a knife, for both parties. Josh is confused and trying to explain to his mother that it is him, as an adult, and tells her the whole story. She goes EntertaininglyWrong, tries to offer her purse, and screams at him to GetOut while brandishing a knife and dialing the cops.
** The scene where Josh's mother chases his adult self out of the house with a knife, for both parties. Josh is confused and trying to explain to his mother that it is him, as an adult, and tells her the whole story. She goes EntertaininglyWrong, tries to offer her purse, and screams at him to GetOut while brandishing a knife and dialing the cops.
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** The Zoltar machine. Its overall appearance is bad enough (especially the glowing eyes when it's "working"), but the breathing sound it makes and the way the mouth opens and closes hugely is extremely disturbing. The Thus, the scene when Josh discovers it's not plugged in thus manages to actually be chilling.
** The scene where Josh's mother chases his adult self out of the house with a knife, for both parties. Josh is confused and trying to explain to his mother that it is him, as an adult, and tells her the whole story. Shegoes EntertaininglyWrong, [[EntertaininglyWrong completely misunderstands]], tries to offer him her purse, purse to no avail, and screams at him to GetOut while brandishing a knife and dialing the cops.
** The scene where Josh's mother chases his adult self out of the house with a knife, for both parties. Josh is confused and trying to explain to his mother that it is him, as an adult, and tells her the whole story. She
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: It wasn't Josh's intention at all, and he was being LiteralMinded, but Paul does aptly point out that the new guy humiliated him during a presentation by asking pointed questions about the Transformer Building prototype and suggesting an idea that was a hit with everyone else. If the audience didn't know that Josh was genuinely confused that buildings aren't fun, it would look like he was being manipulated.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: It wasn't Josh's intention at all, and he was being LiteralMinded, but Paul does aptly point out that the new guy humiliated him during a presentation by asking pointed questions about the Transformer Building prototype and suggesting an idea that was a hit with everyone else. If the audience didn't know that Josh was genuinely confused that buildings aren't fun, during the meeting, it would look like he was being manipulated.manipulating Paul's presentation to come out in his favor.
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** It's a short moment, but Josh crying for his mom during his first night as an adult in a motel. All while he hears someone outside his room shouting on the phone in Spanish and banging on the wall. Josh pushed the mirrored cabinet to block the door.
** After Paul beats up Josh for refusing to surrender the ball to him during racquetball, Josh is sniffling as Susan patches him up. He asks why Paul had to punch him in the nose since he tried to get along with him by "playing his game". Once more, you get a reminder that this is a thirteen-year-old kid that an actual middle-aged man tried to beat up.
** After Paul beats up Josh for refusing to surrender the ball to him during racquetball, Josh is sniffling as Susan patches him up. He asks why Paul had to punch him in the nose since he tried to get along with him by "playing his game". Once more, you get a reminder that this is a thirteen-year-old kid that an actual middle-aged man tried to beat up.
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** After Paul beats up Josh for refusing to surrender the ball to him during racquetball, Josh is snifflingas while Susan patches him up. He asks why Paul had to punch him in the nose nose, since he tried to get along with him by "playing his game". Once more, you get a reminder that this is a thirteen-year-old kid that an actual middle-aged man tried to beat up.
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* ValuesDissonance: It's portrayed as sweet and romantic, but many people have pointed out that Josh and Susan's relationship is technically statutory rape.
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* ValuesDissonance: It's portrayed as sweet and romantic, but many people have pointed out that [[http://www.culturalimperialist.com/2010/08/big-love-outraged-tom-hanks-underage-sex/ Josh and Susan's relationship is technically statutory rape]].
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* ValuesDissonance: It's portrayed as sweet and romantic, but many people have pointed out that [[http://www.culturalimperialist.com/2010/08/big-love-outraged-tom-hanks-underage-sex/ Josh and Susan's relationship is technically statutory rape]].rape.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/DebraJoRupp plays Miss Patterson, Josh's secretary. She was 37 when the film came out.
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* SignatureScene: Josh and Mr. [=MacMillan=] playing the floor keyboard at FAO Schwartz.
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* SignatureScene: Josh and Mr. [=MacMillan=] playing the floor keyboard at FAO Schwartz. Beloved for its cute nature and displaying the characters' innocence, the clip became a hit with audiences and is usually the first thing that jumps to mind whenever someone thinks of the film.
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* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Before its release, there'd already been three OvernightAgeUp comedies [[FollowTheLeader made between 1987 and 1988]]: ''Like Father, Like Son'', ''18 Again!'' and ''Vice Versa'' (not to mention the Italian film ''Da grande'', which was this film's direct inspiration), so many expected this film to tank and be forgotten. Instead, ''Big'' became the highest-grossing and most highly-praised film of the bunch.
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* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Before its release, there'd already been three OvernightAgeUp comedies [[FollowTheLeader [[DuelingWorks made between 1987 and 1988]]: ''Like Father, Like Son'', ''18 Again!'' and ''Vice Versa'' (not to mention the Italian film ''Da grande'', which was this film's direct inspiration), so many expected this film to tank and be forgotten. Instead, ''Big'' became the highest-grossing and most highly-praised film of the bunch.
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** Creator/TomHanks' character works at a toy company. Years later, Hanks would star in [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory another movie involving toys]].
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** Creator/TomHanks' character works at a toy company. Years later, Hanks would star in [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory another movie involving [[Franchise/ToyStory a film series all about toys]].
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** After Paul beats up Josh for refusing to surrender the ball to him during racquetball, Josh is sniffling as Susan patches him up. He asks why Paul had to punch him in the nose since he tried to get along with him by "playing his game". Once more, you get a reminder that this is a twelve-year-old kid that an actual middle-aged man tried to beat up.
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** After Paul beats up Josh for refusing to surrender the ball to him during racquetball, Josh is sniffling as Susan patches him up. He asks why Paul had to punch him in the nose since he tried to get along with him by "playing his game". Once more, you get a reminder that this is a twelve-year-old thirteen-year-old kid that an actual middle-aged man tried to beat up.
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* NightmareFuel: The Zoltar machine. Its overall appearance is bad enough (especially the glowing eyes when it's "working"), but the breathing sound it makes and the way the mouth opens and closes hugely is extremely disturbing. The scene when Josh discovers it's not plugged in thus manages to actually be chilling.
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** The Zoltar machine. Its overall appearance is bad enough (especially the glowing eyes when it's "working"), but the breathing sound it makes and the way the mouth opens and closes hugely is extremely disturbing. The scene when Josh discovers it's not plugged in thus manages to actually bechilling.chilling.
** The scene where Josh's mother chases his adult self out of the house with a knife, for both parties. Josh is confused and trying to explain to his mother that it is him, as an adult, and tells her the whole story. She goes EntertaininglyWrong, tries to offer her purse, and screams at him to GetOut while brandishing a knife and dialing the cops.
** The Zoltar machine. Its overall appearance is bad enough (especially the glowing eyes when it's "working"), but the breathing sound it makes and the way the mouth opens and closes hugely is extremely disturbing. The scene when Josh discovers it's not plugged in thus manages to actually be
** The scene where Josh's mother chases his adult self out of the house with a knife, for both parties. Josh is confused and trying to explain to his mother that it is him, as an adult, and tells her the whole story. She goes EntertaininglyWrong, tries to offer her purse, and screams at him to GetOut while brandishing a knife and dialing the cops.
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* TearJerker: It's a short moment, but Josh crying for his mom during his first night as an adult in a motel. All while he hears someone outside his room shouting on the phone in Spanish and banging on the wall. Josh pushed the mirrored cabinet to block the door.
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* TearJerker: StrawmanHasAPoint: It wasn't Josh's intention at all, and he was being LiteralMinded, but Paul does aptly point out that the new guy humiliated him during a presentation by asking pointed questions about the Transformer Building prototype and suggesting an idea that was a hit with everyone else. If the audience didn't know that Josh was genuinely confused that buildings aren't fun, it would look like he was being manipulated.
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** It's a short moment, but Josh crying for his mom during his first night as an adult in a motel. All while he hears someone outside his room shouting on the phone in Spanish and banging on the wall. Josh pushed the mirrored cabinet to block thedoor.door.
** After Paul beats up Josh for refusing to surrender the ball to him during racquetball, Josh is sniffling as Susan patches him up. He asks why Paul had to punch him in the nose since he tried to get along with him by "playing his game". Once more, you get a reminder that this is a twelve-year-old kid that an actual middle-aged man tried to beat up.
* TearJerker:
** It's a short moment, but Josh crying for his mom during his first night as an adult in a motel. All while he hears someone outside his room shouting on the phone in Spanish and banging on the wall. Josh pushed the mirrored cabinet to block the
** After Paul beats up Josh for refusing to surrender the ball to him during racquetball, Josh is sniffling as Susan patches him up. He asks why Paul had to punch him in the nose since he tried to get along with him by "playing his game". Once more, you get a reminder that this is a twelve-year-old kid that an actual middle-aged man tried to beat up.
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* {{Misblamed}}: For a time, in Italy, this movie was considered an unofficial remake of "Da Grande" (an Italian movie with a very similar plot, aired a year before "Big"). It was actually just a coincidence, as the OvernightAgeUp theme had already been used in 1950s American movies.
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* {{Misblamed}}: MisBlamed: For a time, in Italy, this movie was considered an unofficial remake of "Da Grande" (an Italian movie with a very similar plot, aired a year before "Big"). It was actually just a coincidence, as the OvernightAgeUp theme had already been used in 1950s American movies.
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** The thriving toy industry is primarily concerned with action figures and various physically interactive toys. This is before video gaming put a serious damper on the interest in physical toys. Josh is considered fairly unusual for being a computer gamer, and he's seen as progressive in the toy industry for having an idea for a toy using software.
** Josh's pitch for choose-your-own-adventure comic books is just a dated way of looking at a portable video game console. He's basically pitching a Gameboy that only plays InteractiveFiction games.
** Josh's familiarity with computers turns out to be a rare and surprisingly marketable skill. His data-entry co-workers, who are all in their 20s and 30s, don't have a computer background and can't keep up with him. These days, basic computer literacy is expected for any office job.
** The thriving toy industry is primarily concerned with action figures and various physically interactive toys. This is before video gaming put a serious damper on the interest in physical toys. Josh is considered fairly unusual for being a computer gamer, and he's seen as progressive in the toy industry for having an idea for a toy using software.
** Josh's pitch for choose-your-own-adventure comic books is just a dated way of looking at a portable video game console. He's basically pitching a Gameboy that only plays InteractiveFiction games.
** Josh's familiarity with computers turns out to be a rare and surprisingly marketable skill. His data-entry co-workers, who are all in their 20s and 30s, don't have a computer background and can't keep up with him. These days, basic computer literacy is expected for any office job.
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** Josh and Susan's final goodbye as the former turns back into an child.
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** Josh's idea for an electronic comic may also count as Defictionalization or LifeImitatesArt. While electronic texts existed in the late 1980s, e-books (and, by extension, digital comics) didn't start out-selling print books until [[TheNewTens the 2010s]].
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* ValuesDissonance: It's portrayed as sweet and romantic, but many people have pointed out that [[http://www.culturalimperialist.com/2010/08/big-love-outraged-tom-hanks-underage-sex/ Josh and Susan's relationship is technically pedophilia]].
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** The thriving toy industry is primarily concerned with action figures and various physically interactive toys. This is before video gaming put a serious damper on the interest in physical toys. Josh is considered fairly unusual for being a computer gamer, and he's seen as progressive in the toy industry for having an idea for a toy using software.
** Josh's pitch for choose-your-own-adventure comic books is just a dated way of looking at a portable video game console. He's basically pitching a Gameboy that only plays InteractiveFiction games.
** Josh's familiarity with computers turns out to be a rare and surprisingly marketable skill. His data-entry co-workers, who are all in their 20s and 30s, don't have a computer background and can't keep up with him. These days, basic computer literacy is expected for any office job.
* ValuesDissonance: It's portrayed as sweet and romantic, but many people have pointed out that [[http://www.culturalimperialist.com/2010/08/big-love-outraged-tom-hanks-underage-sex/ Josh and Susan's relationship is technicallypedophilia]].statutory rape]].
** The thriving toy industry is primarily concerned with action figures and various physically interactive toys. This is before video gaming put a serious damper on the interest in physical toys. Josh is considered fairly unusual for being a computer gamer, and he's seen as progressive in the toy industry for having an idea for a toy using software.
** Josh's pitch for choose-your-own-adventure comic books is just a dated way of looking at a portable video game console. He's basically pitching a Gameboy that only plays InteractiveFiction games.
** Josh's familiarity with computers turns out to be a rare and surprisingly marketable skill. His data-entry co-workers, who are all in their 20s and 30s, don't have a computer background and can't keep up with him. These days, basic computer literacy is expected for any office job.
* ValuesDissonance: It's portrayed as sweet and romantic, but many people have pointed out that [[http://www.culturalimperialist.com/2010/08/big-love-outraged-tom-hanks-underage-sex/ Josh and Susan's relationship is technically
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** The electronic comics are cartridge-based as well. Forget e-books, they predicted the UsefulNotes/GameBoy!
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** Overlapping with TechnologyMarchesOn, Billy scoffing at Josh's interest in computer work is pretty funny now that computer skills are a very helpful thing to have.
*** The movie actually seems to have been aware of this, as it's his computer skills that get Josh a job.
*** Josh's idea for an electronic comic may also count as Defictionalization or LifeImitatesArt. While electronic texts existed in the late 1980s, e-books didn't start out-selling print books until [[TheNewTens the 2010s]].
*** The electronic comics are cartridge-based as well. Forget e-books, they predicted the UsefulNotes/GameBoy!
*** The movie actually seems to have been aware of this, as it's his computer skills that get Josh a job.
*** Josh's idea for an electronic comic may also count as Defictionalization or LifeImitatesArt. While electronic texts existed in the late 1980s, e-books didn't start out-selling print books until [[TheNewTens the 2010s]].
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** Overlapping with TechnologyMarchesOn, Billy scoffing at Josh's interest in computer work is pretty funny now that computer skills are a very helpful thing to have.
***have. The movie actually seems to have been aware of this, as it's his computer skills that get Josh a job.
*** ** Josh's idea for an electronic comic may also count as Defictionalization or LifeImitatesArt. While electronic texts existed in the late 1980s, e-books (and, by extension, digital comics) didn't start out-selling print books until [[TheNewTens the 2010s]].
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** Tom Hanks's character works at a toy company. Years later, Hanks would star in [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory another movie involving toys]].
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* {{Misblamed}}: For a time, in Italy, this movie was considered an unofficial remake of "Da Grande" (an Italian movie with a very similar plot, aired a year before "Big"). It was actually just a coincidence, as the OvernightAgeUp theme had already been used in 1950s American movies.
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* ValuesDissonance: It's portrayed as sweet and romantic, but many people have pointed out that [[http://www.culturalimperialist.com/2010/08/big-love-outraged-tom-hanks-underage-sex/ Josh and Susan's relationship is technically pedophilia]].
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* ValuesDissonance: It's portrayed as sweet and romantic, but many people have pointed out that [[http://www.culturalimperialist.com/2010/08/big-love-outraged-tom-hanks-underage-sex/ Josh and Susan's relationship is technically pedophilia]].pedophilia]].
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* TearJerker: It's a short moment, but Josh crying for his mom during his first night as an adult in a motel.
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* ValuesDissonance: It's portrayed as sweet and romantic, but many people have pointed out that [[http://www.culturalimperialist.com/2010/08/big-love-outraged-tom-hanks-underage-sex/ Josh and Susan's relationship is technically pedophilia]].
* ValuesDissonance: It's portrayed as sweet and romantic, but many people have pointed out that [[http://www.culturalimperialist.com/2010/08/big-love-outraged-tom-hanks-underage-sex/ Josh and Susan's relationship is technically pedophilia]].
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* TearJerker: It's a short moment, but Josh crying for his mom during his first night as an adult in a motel.
* TearJerker: It's a short moment, but Josh crying for his mom during his first night as an adult in a motel.
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* SignatureScene: Josh and Mr. [=MacMillan=] playing the floor keyboard at FAO Schwartz.
* UnfortunateImplications: Not only does Susan fall for Josh, a 13-year old in an adult body; the reason she does in the first place is because of his childlike nature. ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' has pointed out these creepy pedophilic undertones in the movie several times.
* UnfortunateImplications: Not only does Susan fall for Josh, a 13-year old in an adult body; the reason she does in the first place is because of his childlike nature. ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' has pointed out these creepy pedophilic undertones in the movie several times.
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* UnfortunateImplications: Not only does Susan fall for Josh, a 13-year old in an adult body; the reason she does in the first place is because of his childlike nature. ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' has pointed out these creepy pedophilic undertones in the movie several times.Schwartz.
* UnfortunateImplications: Not only does Susan fall for Josh, a 13-year old in an adult body; the reason she does in the first place is because of his childlike nature. ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' has pointed out these creepy pedophilic undertones in the movie several times.
