The director who, with his partners, named their movie studio Dreamworks, Steven Spielberg, understands that movies are like a guided dream. Roald Dahl's story about a Big Friendly Giant who collects, selects, edits, and delivers dreams to make people happy and convey messages that are beyond the capacity of verbal human interaction connects with him profoundly, and it shows.
At 3 am one night in 1983, a girl named Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) is the only one...