Originally a true believer, Will now knows everything his father has told him was not just an exageration or even a tall tale but an outright lie.
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Ed Bloom has spent his life spinning his personal history into mythological proportions: an early encounter with a very tall man becomes a battle with a house-sized giant a rural village is depicted as heaven on earth military service during the Korean War morphs into a behind-the-lines mission that would make Duke Nukem proud. Father and son are reunited as Finney lies dying of cancer. Jessica Lange plays his wife and Billy Crudup plays the son, Will, estranged from his father for the past three years. Bloom is a metaphorical and literal big fish in the small pond of Ashton, Alabama in this tale told mostly through flashback. Albert Finney and Ewan McGregor share the role of Ed Bloom, one of the big fish from the movie's title while an SUV-sized catfish plays the other. "Big Fish" combines Burton's unusual humor with a heart-wrenching story of a father-son deathbed reconciliation. And there's always the possibility of Danny DeVito chomping down on a raw fish. Will it be "Edward Scissorhands" or "Batman II?" With Burton you could get a quirky comedy, a dark thriller, or sweet morality tale. I approach Tim Burton films with a certain trepidation. The question is whether Will will be able to reconcile Edward's stories against his real life, either directly from Edward before he dies and/or from other sources, and thus allow Will to come to a new understanding of himself and his life, past, present and future. One of those stories from Edward's childhood - that he saw his own death in the glass eye of a witch - led to him embracing life since he would not have to fear death knowing when and how it would eventually come. On the brink of his own family life beginning, Will does not want to be the kind of father Edward has been to him. As a child when Edward was largely absent as a traveling salesman, Will believed those stories, but now realizes that he does not know his father, who, as he continues to tell these stories, he will never get to know unless Edward comes clean with the truth before he dies. Will's issue with his father is the fanciful tales Edward has told of his life all his life, not only to Will but the whole world. Although connected indirectly through Will's mother/Edward's wife, Sandra Bloom, Will has been estranged from his father for three years since his and Josephine's wedding.
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United Press International journalist Will Bloom and his French freelance photojournalist wife Josephine Bloom, who is pregnant with their first child, leave their Paris base to return to Will's hometown of Ashton, Alabama on the news that his father, Edward Bloom, stricken with cancer, will soon die, he being taken off chemotherapy treatment.