Zoom for Closeup in Moving Image?

Okay, what I am asking is probably impossible, at least in iMovie 3.0.3 which I am currently using, but I'd like to ask anyway and learn "how" impossible.
Say I have a moving (video) image (in iMovie) showing several people, and I want to have just one be the focus but retain it as a moving image only make it into a closeup instead of a group image.
I know in the "old days" this was perfectly possible with a device called a "film enlarger." But these aren't the old days and this isn't film, so:
1. Is this now way easier, by selecting an image and manipulating by cropping the edges with little grabby-handles I just haven't been able to find? Or
2. Is what I am asking out of the question and utterly impossible?
3. Is it impossible in iMovie 3.0.3 but possible in some other version, and, if so, how highly-numbered a version would I need to make it possible?
Just figured I'd ask, thanks.

A video file only has so many pixels. Trying to zoom will reduce the number of pixels, giving you a blurry image.
There are plug-ins for this, but don't expect too much:
http://www.danslagle.com/mac/iMovie/links.shtml#plugins

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To my great relief I have now sorted this issue and offer the following as the Correct Answer. My sincere and grateful thanks go to Curt and Yammer, above, who have helped me so much in sorting this Windows 7 issue which is clearly very relevant to Bridge users also. Any slowness to grasp what they have been saying is down to me!
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