12岁的乔什(汤姆·汉克斯 Tom Hanks 饰)似乎对自己的年龄有些意见:个子太矮而无法坐绕环滑车,年纪太小追不到心仪女孩……于是他向游乐场里的一个古旧许愿机投了25美分,许愿变成一个大人。不料第二天起床,乔什竟发现自己一夜之间长大了近20岁,现在他是一个不折不扣的大人了,连母亲都认为他是绑架儿子的陌生人而将他赶了出去。乔什只好自谋生计,在一家玩具公司找到了职位。在一次偶然的机会,乔什孩子般的天真与热情给玩具公司老板留下了深刻印象,他的点子也使他在工作中频获嘉奖,很快住进了宽敞的公寓,并与年轻同事苏珊(伊丽莎白·帕金斯 Elizabeth Perkins 饰)展开了浪漫恋情。然而随着工作、生活、爱情这些成人世界的压力开始向乔什逼近,乔什那颗刚满13岁的心渐渐感到困倦失落,他开始回想,这是否就是自己想要的成长……
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Kang Yu-jin is a leading specialist in the biological field. While collecting butterflies, he finds a rare breed and brings it home. His wife Sun-hi is glad to have her husband for the night and the next day sees a strange wooden doll amongst her husband's films and begins to feel strange. Returning from a trip to the country side, he brings home Mi-ok, the daughter of a shaman priestess. Sun-hi finds the same doll in Mi-ok's clothes and begins to get suspicious and finally deranged. She goes mad one day and tries to get rid of Mi-ok and accidentally causes Mi-ok to fall to her death. But from then on, Sun-hi is tormented by visions of the wooden doll attacking her.