Word: joshed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...determined group of writers thumping away in the Old Executive Office Building. They provided the President with speeches that soared around the world, eloquent statements about freedom and democracy and glory of the individual. By the measure of the day, Chief Writer Tony Dolan, 39, along with Josh Gilder, 34, Peter Robinson, 31, Clark Judge, 40, and Mark Klugmann, 28, should have been out riding the bull market or selling their kiss-and-tell memoirs. Instead they were busy burnishing the original Reagan and lifting him up for a dignified finish to his presidency...
...plot is so beguiling that the only real surprise is that no one thought of it before (though Francis Coppola's 1986 Peggy Sue Got Married was Big in reverse). Josh Baskin (David Moscow), a twelve-year-old who has just discovered girls, realizes one day that he is not big enough to get the one he wants, a sophisticate of 15 or so who, of course, likes older boys. What could be simpler than to plunk a quarter in a carnival wishing machine and ask to be, well, big? But Josh did not specify just how big, and when...
...Outside, Josh is in his 30s; inside, he is still a sheltered child, whose most bruising experience has been dueling with some electronic monster in a video game. Not recognizing the boy in the man, his frightened mother uses a butcher knife to evict him from their home in suburban New Jersey. It is left to Josh's more worldly friend Billy (Jared Rushton) to escort him across the Hudson to Manhattan and to help him find a job as a computer operator in a giant toy company...
What follows is predictable but daffy and delightful nonetheless. Who knows more about the kind of toys a twelve-year-old would like than a twelve-year- old? None of the grownups at the toy company, anyway. "What's a marketing report?" asks Josh, who has never heard of such a thing, and the company president (Robert Loggia) is so impressed with his ability to look at the product rather than the charts that he appoints him vice president in charge of development, assigning him to do nothing but sit in an office and play. Like the Peter Sellers character...
...never before seen in a man: innocence. She invites herself back to his apartment, only to discover that he really is innocent. She can sleep over, he allows, but he gets to be on top -- the top bunk, that is. Eventually, however, in a subtle and charming scene, Josh learns how a man and a woman can share the same bed, and that adulthood has its own pleasures...