Updated 6h 23m 18s ago | Login | Mobile site

Great sites

Mistakes

When Bloom first goes to see Jenny about buying her house, the door is rhombus-shaped (as to fit with the slanting house), but when Bloom rips the door off, it lands on the floor as a regular rectangle. See more...

Mistake pictures

Movie Mistakes blog

Big Fish (2003) - 9 trivia entries

Directed by Tim Burton, starring Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Ewan McGregor, Helena Bonham Carter, Jessica Lange (add more)

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Comedy, Adventure

Trivia

Helena Bonham Carter, who plays the grown up version of Jenny (from the town of Spectre),also plays the witch. She is also engaged to director Tim Burton.

Edit

Correction Edit text Duplicate Add time Add picture X

⇑

⇓

In the beginning, when the story of the fish is being told, if you look to the left side of the screen at the lures, you'll see a skull reflected in one of them when Edward mentions the dead criminal.

Edit

Correction Edit text Duplicate Add time Add picture X

⇑

⇓

The banjo player in Spectre (Billy Redden) is playing 'Dueling Banjos,' the same song he played in 'Deliverance' as a boy (these are also his only two movie appearances).

Edit Submitted by Xofer

Correction Edit text Duplicate Add time Add picture X

⇑

⇓

If you look at the line with all the shoes on it, third from the left is a pair of ruby slippers.

Edit Submitted by rabid anarchist

Correction Edit text Duplicate Add time Add picture X

⇑

⇓

When Edward is at the circus for the very first time, the orchestra plays the same melody used for the song "The Pitch (Spectacular, Spectacular.)" in "Moulin Rouge" - also starring Ewan McGregor.

Edit

Correction Edit text Duplicate Add time Add picture X

⇑

⇓

When Edward Bloom proposes in the field of daffodils, he wears a tie with a swirl design on it. The swirl is strongly reminiscent of an iconic shot from "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1994), another Tim Burton film, when Jack Skellington's ridge is unfurling in front of a full moon.

Edit Submitted by Phoenix

Correction Edit text Duplicate Add time Add picture X

⇑

⇓

The author of the novel, Daniel Wallace, plays an economics professor who's shown working an overhead projector.

Edit

Correction Edit text Duplicate Add time Add picture X

⇑

⇓

Steven Spielberg was originally set to direct this film, and he wanted to cast Jack Nicholson as Edward Bloom. But due to his schedule, he was forced to drop the project. This is when Tim Burton signed on as director.

Edit

Correction Edit text Duplicate Add time Add picture X

⇑

⇓

The Amos character was a combination of Italian director Federico Fellini and American adult film actor Ron Jeremy.

Edit

Correction Edit text Duplicate Add time Add picture X