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Big Fish is a 2003 movie directed by Tim Burton and written by John August, starring Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup and Jessica Lange. It is based on the novel received four Golden Globe nominations and one Oscar nomination for Danny Elfman's original score.

Finney) and his relationship with his son, Will (Crudup). In the beginning of the film, Will hasn't talked to his father for years, following an incident that assured his belief that his father was a liar who couldn't care less about his family. He approaches him again only after he learns that his father is dying.

The movie is portrayed through flashbacks, as Will tries to recall and piece together the stories his father used to tell him about his many adventures and how he lived his life, which he believes to be tall tales and impossible to believe. Bloom's stories contain fantasy elements: a witch, a giant, werewolf, and so on, showing him as a lucky hero with few personal flaws.

Will sets out to grasp the idea behind these stories and to discover the truth about the real Edward Bloom.

The film included an appearance by former child actor Billy Redden, famous as the banjo-playing mentally handicapped mountain boy named Lonny in the acclaimed 1972 film, . In the December 23, 2003 issue of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution director Tim Burton was quoted as saying he wanted Redden in the film as a character sitting on a porch with a banjo because "I never forgot that image."A red 1966 Dodge Charger figuring prominently in the film as young Edward Bloom's car was portrayed by four different cars in various sequences of the movie.Most of the story is set in and around the fictional town of Ashton, Alabama. Most of the landmarks of Ashton actually exist in Wetumpka, Alabama where principal shooting took place.During the plane flight, Will Bloom sees a child doing a shadow puppet of a bat the exact same way The Penguin did it in Tim Burton's earlier film Batman Returns.