10 Feel Good Movies With Heartbreaking Hidden Secrets

There are plenty of movies which come with the tag ‘you wouldn’t be able to make a movie like that these days’. With the likes of Big Mouth, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia and Game Of Thrones pushing the boundaries of acceptability, such claims don’t stand up.

With Big though, it feels safe ground to say ‘you’d never get away with that these days’. Those who say it normalises paedophilia over step the mark, but it’s certainly ethically iffy. The heartbreaking part concerns the aftermath of the relationship for both parties involved.

How exactly is what Tom Hanks went through any different from grooming? His girlfriend didn’t know he was a kid, but that doesn’t change the fact he still was. As he gets older and starts to actually go through puberty, what he’s been through might really start to mess him up.

Then of course, there’s the woman herself. She might be able to comfort herself if she was just interested in that impishly sexy ‘80s Tom Hanks, but they had a real emotional connection. She had an emotional, romantic connection... with a child. That’s not something she’s walking away from unscathed.