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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama /
Music /
Music
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Director:
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Tom Hanks
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Actors:
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Charlize Theron,
Chris Ellis,
Tom Everett Scott,
Liv Tyler,
Johnathon Schaech,
Steve Zahn,
Ethan Embry,
Tom Hanks,
Obba Babatundé,
Giovanni Ribisi
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Duration:
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108 min.
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Rating:
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(6.7/10)83
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Plot Summary:
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Tells the improbable tale of a fictitious Erie, Pennsylvania band called The Wonders. With the arrogate of a catchy single, these likeable teenagers drone on from garage gather to nationwide perception within a proceeding of months. But when they reach the cap, how dream of will they be able to forestay there?
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That Thing You Do!
Tom Hanks made his directorial debut with this immensely likeable pop fable close to the order rise and fall of the Wonders, an all-American small-city mythical destroyed 'n' wave band. Invariable in a period-skilled 1964, and featuring a marvellously evocative soundtrack of cod-Golden Oldies, it purposely emphasises the Forrest Gump-style feel-eulogistic nostalgia, instead than making any hard-hitting statements about the cost of notoriety. Hanks also plays the faction's opportunistic straw boss, but it's bell-like-natured Tom Everett Scott who registers strongest as the drumming driving wrench behind the aspiring Beatles, and Liv Tyler is equally affecting as the band's mascot.
That Thing You Do!
"...Tom Hanks understands likable....Everett Scott is appropriately handsome and charming....Hanks and companionship allow us to dream..."
That Thing You Do!
Sanitized 60s her for those who grooved to Forrest Gump; nostalgia into a simpler, more innocent all together (at least, as seen in the course Hanks's distorting lens) acts as a narrative sedative, be that as it may audiences may sympathize with to its generalized enthusiasm.
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