Tom Hanks made 'Big' the fun 1980s movie it is. Had Robert De Niro played Josh Baskin, it would have been a horror flick.

The former 'Big' actor recounts what it was like working with Tom Hanks in conversation with PEOPLE Sara Belcher is a digital news writer/editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024.

The Money Pit was preceded by other memorable comedies of Tom Hanks’ early career like Big, The ‘Burbs and Joe Versus The Volcano, before the 1990s had him changing things up with more ...

It’s been 36 years since the Tom Hanks-led body-swap movie Big was released, but David Moscow still has fond memories from the film’s set. “He's not pretentious,” Moscow tells PEOPLE of Hanks.