A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 69 nominations total
Loudon Wainwright III
- Beamen
- (as Loudon Wainwright)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe joke with the elephant defecating while Edward daydreams was unscripted. The filming crew found it hilarious, and quickly zoomed out to get the whole thing.
- GoofsEdward Bloom's "story" is set in a nostalgic, idealized amalgamation of the 1940s-1970s, so strict chronological and factual accuracy is not required.
- Quotes
Will Bloom: A man tells his stories so many times that he becomes the stories. They live on after him, and in that way he becomes immortal.
- Crazy creditsThe Columbia logo runs in reverse.
- Alternate versionsA scene was slightly trimmed to reduce shots of a woman in a river showing her backside in Singapore and in India. The Singapore video nonsensically carries an 'NC-16' rating.
- ConnectionsEdited into Funny or Die Presents...: Fifty Shades of DeVito (2018)
Featured review
My father was a brilliant sculptor and a great visionary. When I was a kid, I never could explain what he was doing. I got it a month before his death when i was 26. This film filled my eyes with tears, because it reminded me him. he had a lot of ideas and brilliant and original ideas for improving the world, but for all his life he could not sell it to anyone, because those ideas filled his whole day. Literally. His whole apartment was filled with papers. Thank you for this movie. Thank you for the message. I would add a note that when we dream, we are escaping from the world of facts and truths. When my father said that if you think of anything in life, you have to write it down because what comes to your mind it never comes again it changed my life. Now I'm writing a book - a novel from environment of Mesopotamia and that just because my father was someone who believed in imagination and creative values.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official site
- Languages
- Also known as
- El gran pez
- Filming locations
- Wetumpka, Alabama, USA(Town of Ashton and Ed Bloom's house)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $70,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $66,809,693
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $207,377
- Dec 14, 2003
- Gross worldwide
- $123,235,422
- Runtime2 hours 5 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
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