Pull up a chair, kids, it’s time to play “Name that Movie!” Here are the clues: Kid wants to be older; kid makes a wish to be older; kid wakes up the next morning to find he/she is now mysteriously 20 years older; kid is now trapped inside the body of an adult — a gentle, romantic comedy ensues.
Sound familiar? Doesn’t it sound like that ’80s movie where a very young Tom Hanks plays “Chopsticks” on that big floor keyboard thing? The one where he goes up to some genie-in-a-box and wishes to be “big”? Isn’t it that movie where Hanks brings home his lady friend and asks to sleep on the top bunk? You know, that movie where he gets his own trampoline in his apartment? Isn’t it that movie called “Big”?
Wrong! I was talking about “13 Going on 30.” You know, the one where a young girl wants to be older, makes a wish to be older and wakes up the next day to find that she is older. Oh wait, that’s exactly like “Big.” Silly me, I’ll let you have “Big” then, substitute Hanks with Jennifer Garner and they’re pretty much the same bloody movie.