Word: toye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...Besides an executive office, his rewards include an expensive toy-filled loft and a real live girl, or woman. Susan (Elizabeth Perkins), who has slept her way to the top, is seduced by something she has 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...
...narrow chest and flatten that soft stomach. Even so, he will not give Arnold Schwarzenegger any competition. In fact he found himself gasping at the end of a tough scene in which he and Robert Loggia dance a duet on giant piano keys embedded in the floor of a toy store. "It was exhausting, like jumping rope for ten hours," recalls Hanks...
...twelve- year- old boy wakes up one morning and finds he is the size and shape of Tom Hanks. His secret is that he remains a child inside, which enables him to score a success in the toy business, then with a fetching co- worker, who falls in love with a man who is a boy trying to act like a man. -- Eternal cutup Hanks, 31, emerges in the film as one of Hollywood' s top comic actors...