15 Hollywood Classics That Reflect a Different Era, Ranked

Big (1988)

Twentieth Century Fox via MovieStillsDb

For the most part, Big is a heartwarming and funny classic that’s great for the whole family. But there’s one aspect of Tom Hanks’s big break that is a little too hard to ignore in retrospect.

Although Josh Baskin considered his intimate relationship with Susan a wonderful aspect of his suddenly grown-up lifestyle, co-star Elizabeth Perkins has since acknowledged the unfortunate implications of that relationship in an interview with The Guardian. Because while Hanks was a grown man, his character was still technically a 12-year-old boy inside.