Big Fish
An adventure as big as life itself.
Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales.In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William.Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures.
- Director
- Tim Burton
- Signature
- Craft · Drama · Wonder
- Worldwide
- $123M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
25 billed performers
The Nutevio profile
Movie DNA
How Big Fish actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
Story overview
What It's About
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Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures.
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The record
Awards
0 wins · 1 nomination
Academy Awards
No wins yet · 1 nomination
- WinnerAcademy Award for Best Original Score
The numbers
Box Office & Release
Big Fish returned 1.8× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $70M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $123M
- Release date
- Dec 10, 2003
- Runtime
- 2h 5m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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