35 Trivia Tidbits About ‘Big’ for Its 35th Anniversary

It solidified Penny Marshall's directorial career and made Tom Hanks America's sweetheart. It's the movie featuring an iconic floor piano scene and a belated controversy about Hanks and Elizabeth Perkins getting all romantic regardless of the technical age gap. Big, the adored 1988 blockbuster turns 35 today, so we’ve gathered enough trivia tidbits to fill up a Zoltar machine and then some...

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Colin Hanks was 10 when his dad was making Big, and he had just returned from summer camp, where he had heard and learned the rhyme. Tom Hanks and Marshall were looking for a song to use in the scene, and when Dad Hanks heard Son Hanks rap that tune, he obviously knew it would work.

According to Perkins, Hanks improvised at least 15 bits during the filming of the party scene, and it was apparently delightful to watch. "He walks through the door in a white tuxedo, and the first choice he makes is, ‘Everyone's staring at me. Is my fly open?’" Perkins recalled. "That was all Tom Hanks. Penny is one of those directors who says, ‘Let's just do it again and see what happens.’ So there was an enormous amount of play, which really allowed Tom to find those adolescent moments that made you believe he was 13."