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Tom Hanks
Born 9 July 1956, in Corcord, California
Wise words: "I love what I do for a living, it's the greatest job in the world, but you have to survive an awful lot of attention that you don't truly deserve and you have to live up to your professional responsibilities and I'm always trying to balance that with what is really important."
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Top 10 - Tom Hanks -
15 September 2009
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-As the lead in Touchstone Pictures’ very first cinematic production, Tom Hanks swept mermaid Darrell Hannah off her fins, to the delight of millions everywhere. The film was a box-office hit, marking Hanks&
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Howard shuns Hanks' acting offers -
12 May 2009
-Actor-turned-director Tom Hanks has stopped pleading with Ron Howard to star in one of his movies - because his attempts to cast the the filmmaker have been rejected for the last 11 years.-
-Former Happy Days star Howard turned down Hanks' offer to return to the s
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Hanks defends Angels & Demons against Catholic criticism -
4 May 2009
-Hollywood star Tom Hanks is baffled by the criticism his new film Angels & Demons has attracted from leading Roman Catholics - because he insists there is "nothing sacrilegious" about the murder mystery.-
-The actor plays Harvard symbologist Dr. Robert Langdon in
Tom Hanks - what members say
Tom Hanks - filmography
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Toy Story in 3-D
(2009)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles
Director: John Lasseter
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Originally released by Walt Disney Pictures in 1995, "Toy Story" was the first feature film from Pixar Animation Studios and director John Lasseter. The film went on to receive Oscar® nominations for Best Original Score, Best Original Song, and Best Original Screenplay, and earned Lasseter a ..read more »
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Angels and Demons
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer, Ewan McGregor
Director: Ron Howard
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Tom Hanks and Ron Howard unite for their fourth pairing with this follow-up to THE DA VINCI CODE. Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) works to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican.
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The Great Buck Howard
(2008)
Starring: Tom Hanks, John Malkovich, Colin Hanks
Director: Sean McGinly
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As the career of renowned illusionist (Malkovich) continues its decline, a young man (Colin Hanks) fresh out of school becomes his new assistant. But his father (Hanks) is not enthused about his son's career choice at all.
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Charlie Wilson's War
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Amy Adams, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts
Director: Mike Nichols
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A drama based on a Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets have some unforeseen and long-reaching effects.
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Charlie Wilson's War - HD DVD Version
(2007)
Starring: Amy Adams, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts
Director: Mike Nichols
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The first time the audience sees Texas congressman Charlie Wilson (Tom Hanks) in the early 1980s, he seems far from a model politician. Surrounded by strippers, a Playboy Playmate, and cocaine, the naked congressman lies in a hot tub at a party. Despite the distractions, the TV news catches Charlie'..read more »
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Who Killed The Electric Car?
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: martin sheen (voice), martin sheen, Martin Sheen
Director: Chris Paine
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In the 1990s, following California's passing of the Zero Emission Vehicle mandate, American car companies began producing electric cars for mainstream consumption. GM's EV1, which was by all accounts quiet, fast, and capable of driving up to 80 miles on one charge, used no gasoline and quickly ..read more »
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The Da Vinci Code
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen
Director: Ron Howard
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The 2005 best selling novel's big screen adaptation. A murder in the Louvre and clues in Da Vinci paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years -- which could shake the foundations of Christianity.
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Da Vinci Code, The - BLU-RAY Version
(2006)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen
Director: Ron Howard
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Dan Brown's best-selling book THE DA VINCI CODE gets adapted for the big screen thanks to director Ron Howard (CINDERELLA MAN), who helms this big budget production. Veteran actor Tom Hanks stars as professor Robert Langdon, whose Parisian lecture tour on feminine symbolism gets disrupted when he's ..read more »
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Polar Express
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Leslie Zemeckis, Eddie Deezen
Director: Robert Zemeckis
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Director Robert Zemeckis revolutionised the art of animated film in 1998's WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT by dropping cartoon characters into the same frame with flesh-and-blood actors. In THE POLAR EXPRESS, live action and animation have merged seamlessly, resulting in sparkling super-realism. A landmark ..read more »
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64%
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The Terminal
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta Jones, Stanley Tucci
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Viktor Navorksi (Tom Hanks) falls into a bureaucratic crack in the system when his plane lands at New York's JFK airport from the fictitious country of Krakozhia. Unbeknownst to Navorski, his country fell prey to a military coup while he was in flight, causing it to be wiped from the map. This ..read more »
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The Ladykillers
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Marlon Wayans, Irma P. Hall
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
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It is always difficult to try to recreate a classic movie, so Joel and Ethan Coen took the premise of Alexander Mackendrick's beloved 1955 Ealing Studio caper comedy, THE LADYKILLERS, as the basis for coming up with their own entertaining and bizarre remake. Tom Hanks stars as Goldthwait Higginson ..read more »
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Road To Perdition
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tyler Hoechlin, Paul Newman
Director: Sam Mendes
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Directed by Sam Mendes and based on the graphic novel by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner, the Depression-era crime epic ROAD TO PERDITION stars Tom Hanks as Michael Sullivan, a quiet hit man who is duty bound to Mafia boss John Rooney (Paul Newman). The mobster's close bond with Sullivan,..read more »
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Catch Me If You Can
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christopher Walken
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Frank W. Abagnale's autobiography CATCH ME IF YOU CAN follows the cat-and-mouse chase of Abagnale (Leonardo DiCaprio) and FBI agent Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks) as Abagnale travels the world passing forged checks and assuming false identities. Covering the time period ..read more »
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Cast Away
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Christopher Noth
Director: Robert Zemeckis
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Tom Hanks is Chuck Noland, a man in a hurry. His job for Federal Express has him traveling the world on a moment's notice, exhorting the company's employees to speed things up--"never turn your back on the clock." When he's suddenly called away for business on Christmas night, his tolerant longtime ..read more »
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Toy Story 2
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack
Director: John Lasseter
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Ever wonder what toys do when people aren't around? Disney/Pixar's TOY STORY answers that question with a fantastic fun-filled journey, viewed mostly through the eyes of two rival toys- Woody, the lanky, likable cowboy, and Buzz Lightyear, the fearless space ranger. Led by Woody, Andy's toys live ..read more »
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The Green Mile
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, James Cromwell
Director: Frank Darabont
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A DVD collection of three dramatic American films: THE GREEN MILE (1999, 18), PAY IT FORWARD (2000, 13), and PROOF OF LIFE (2000, 15).THE GREEN MILE: Director Frank Darabont's second adaptation of a Stephen King prison tale (the first being 1994's nearly flawless THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION) is a ..read more »
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You've Got Mail
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Greg Kinnear
Director: Nora Ephron
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Based on the classic film The Shop Around the Corner, this tale of pen-pal romance has been updated for the internet age. Hanks plays a book mega-store owner who falls in love over e-mail with the owner of a struggling children's bookstore, played by Ryan.
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62%
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Saving Private Ryan
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Director Steven Spielberg's World War II tour de force chronicles the journey of a GI squad on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines. Led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks), the unit is under orders to track down a soldier, Private Ryan (Matt Damon), so he might return home to his mother in ..read more »
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from 56,035 members
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From The Earth To The Moon
(5 discs)
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Krista Adair, Mason Adams
Director: David Carson, Sally Field
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Tom Hanks, Imagine Entertainment and HBO present - From the Earth to the Moon, the dramatic story of the unforgettable Apollo missions and their heroic astronauts, from President John F. Kennedy's historic speech, through the first manned expeditions into space, to the defining moment of the space ..read more »
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That Thing You Do!
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Liv Tyler, Johnathon Schaech, Ethan Embry
Director: Tom Hanks
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Set in the 1964 and steeped in Americana, this Tom Hanks's directorial debut chronicles the meteoric rise--and equally quick demise--of a music group called the Wonders. The talented musicians start out playing in neighborhood joints. However, that changes after they meet a shrewd record executive (..read more »
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from 2,050 members
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Toy Story
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Annie Potts, Tim Allen
Director: John Lasseter
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A full-length computer-animated feature which follows the story of a group of toys who fall out with each other when a space ranger threatens the leadership of an old wooden cowboy.
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Apollo 13
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton
Director: Ron Howard
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A vividly rendered dramatisation of Apollo 13's true-life brush with disaster on the way to the Moon in 1971. This mesmerising film combines computer graphics, archive footage and seamless special effects to recreate the adrenalised odyssey of Astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert who ..read more »
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Forrest Gump
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Sam Anderson, Sally Field
Director: Robert Zemeckis
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The title character leads viewers through an accidental travelogue of American social history from the early 1960s through the present in this revisionist fable. Vietnam, desegregation, Watergate and more are presented from the perspective of Hanks' lovably slow-witted character as he finds himself ..read more »
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Forrest Gump - BLU-RAY Version
(1994)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Sally Field, Gary Sinise
Director: Robert Zemeckis
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The story of Forrest Gump, an innocent and childlike man, who found himself present for many of the most memorable events in American history from the 1950s through to the 1970s. Forrest, however, was for the most part, totally oblivious to the significance of his actions... Based on the novel by ..read more »
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82%
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Sleepless In Seattle
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks, Bill Pullman
Director: Nora Ephron
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Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks) is a good father and a successful architect, but also a lonely widower. One night his precocious 8-year-old son Jonah calls a late-night radio talk show seeking a cure for his father's despondency. When Sam hesitantly takes the phone and discloses the story of his magic-..read more »
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67%
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Philadelphia
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards
Director: Jonathan Demme
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After a solid track record and a much-deserved promotion, Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks), a handsome, upwardly mobile Philadelphia lawyer, loses his high-paying corporate job when he starts developing full-blown AIDS. Though Andrew's firm attributes his dismissal to his supposedly poor performance, he ..read more »
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A League Of Their Own
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna
Director: Penny Marshall
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In 1943 when the ranks of professional male baseball players were leaving for the war, a group of ladies left their homes to become part of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and kept baseball alive for a grateful nation. This is their story. Dottie Hinson (Geena Davis) is the team'..read more »
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The Bonfire Of The Vanities
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Melanie Griffith, Bruce Willis
Director: Brian De Palma
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Brian De Palma (SCARFACE) directed this lavish adaptation of Tom Wolfe's best-selling satirical novel, featuring Tom Hanks, Melanie Griffith, and Bruce Willis. Hanks stars as Sherman McCoy, a distinctly 1980s brand of wealthy Wall Street wizard who takes a mighty fall from his glitzy lifestyle ..read more »
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Turner And Hooch
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
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The world of a compulsively neat investigator is turned upside-down when he is forced to team up with up the only witness to a crime; a drooling junkyard dog who wrecks his home, his career and his new romance.
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The Burbs
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Carrie Fisher, Rick Ducommun
Director: Joe Dante
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Tom Hanks portrays suburbanite Ray Peterson, whose plans for a peaceful vacation are disturbed by a creepy new family on the block, in this outrageous suspense-comedy directed by Joe Dante.
To the disappointment of his wife Carol (Carrie Fisher), Ray decides to spend a relaxing week at home, and ..read more »
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Punchline
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Sally Field, Tom Hanks, Kim Greist
Director: David Seltzer
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Lilah Krytsick (Sally Field) is a New Jersey housewife and mother of three who has been told all her life that she is funny. Steven Gold (Tom Hanks) is a failed medical student whose natural comedic talent has allowed him to steal the spotlight at New York comedy club the Gas Station, thus keeping ..read more »
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Big
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia
Director: Penny Marshall
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In Penny Marshall's charming comedy, a 13-year-old boy named Josh (David Moscow) wants, more than anything else, to be "big." And when he makes a wish in a carnival booth, his dreams come true--he becomes a 30-year-old man (Tom Hanks), though his mind and spirit remain that of a child. Since he can'..read more »
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Dragnet
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Harry Morgan
Director: Tom Mankiewicz
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A seemingly squeaky-clean TV reverend and a porno magazine king are suspected of operating a crime-ridden cult. Joe Friday's nephew and his 'hip' partner are given the task of proving these allegations with 'just the facts'.
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Nothing In Common
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Jackie Gleason, Eva Marie Saint
Director: Garry Marshall
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David Basner (Tom Hanks) is on a winning streak. He's a young, successful Chicago ad executive with two lovely women (Bess Armstrong and Sela Ward) vying for his attention. But things go awry for him when his parents (Jackie Gleason and Eva Marie Saint) decide to call it quits after 35 years of ..read more »
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Every Time We Say Goodbye
(1986)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Cristina Marsillach, Benedict Taylor
Director: Moshe Mizrahi
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A romantic drama set in Jerusalem during World War II. While recuperating from a battle injury, American pilot David meets and falls in love with Sarah, a pretty Sephardic Jew. Although she shares his romantic feelings, the couple must overcome the objections of Sarah's very religious family, who ..read more »
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The Money Pit
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Shelley Long, Brian Backer
Director: Richard Benjamin
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An updating of MR BLANDINGS BUILDS HIS DREAM HOUSE in which an up-and-coming entertainment lawyer takes the big step with his girlfriend and purchases a fixer-upper for a 'steal.' As it turns out, the steal is really a rip-off and everything that can go wrong, does. Some think this is one of Tom ..read more »
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Volunteers
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Tom Hanks, John Candy, Rita Wilson
Director: Nicholas Meyer
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In a desperate attempt to escape the bookies to whom he owes a lot of money, a playboy enlists in the Peace Corps and is sent on a mission to Thailand. Far from being an altruist, however, this capitalist is soon turning a profit and starts improving the desperate conditions around him, much to the ..read more »
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The Man With One Red Shoe
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Tom Hanks, James Belushi, Lori Singer
Director: Stan Dragoti
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The life of an eccentric violinist is turned upside down when he is mistaken for a C.I.A. agent.In the midst of an internal power struggle at the CIA, Ross (Durning), chief of one branch of the agency, plays a trick on Cooper (Coleman), chief of a rival branch. Ross picks out a random innocent--a ..read more »
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Splash
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Daryl Hannah, Tom Hanks, Eugene Levy
Director: Ron Howard
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A charming, sexy and funny mermaid tale with Tom Hanks as a successful, young businessman who has everything but love, that is until he meets up with the girl of his dreams, played by Daryl Hannah; however, unbeknownst to him, she is a mermaid targeted for capture by an obsessed oceanographer. ..read more »
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Bachelor Party
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Adrian Zmed, Tawny Kitaen
Director: Neal Israel
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Rick (Hanks) is a charming but goofy young guy who is about to marry his upper-class girlfriend, whose parents disapprove of him. When his friends decide to throw a wild and crazy bachelor party, all hell breaks loose. Featuring a cocaine-snorting mule, Japanese businessmen, and a lot of hearty ..read more »
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Mazes And Monsters
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Wendy Crewson, David Wallace
Director: Steven H. Stern
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For a group of college friends playing a popular fantasy game, the fine line between fantasy and reality has become hopelessly distorted. The game has become a nightmare. Made for television. AKA 'Rona Jaffe's Mazes and Monsters' and 'Dungeons and Dragons'.
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Toy Story 3
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack
Director: Lee Unkrich
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"Toy Story 3" brings to life more adventures from Woody, Buzz Lightyear and the rest of Andy's toys as they go on the road and out of Andy's room.
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Bosom Buddies - Series 1
(3 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Tom Hanks
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Kip and Henry work at an advertising agency as an artist and writer respectively. When the apartment that they were living in was condemned, they had no place to live. So Amy their co-worker, who has a crush on Henry, suggests that they stay with her but the only the problem is that it's for girls ..read more »
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Cast Away
to Watch Now
(2000)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Christopher Noth
Director: Robert Zemeckis
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Run time: 143 minutes
Tom Hanks is Chuck Noland, a man in a hurry. His job for Federal Express has him traveling the world on a moment's notice, exhorting the company's employees to speed things up--"never turn your back on the clock." When he's suddenly called away for business on Christmas night, his tolerant longtime ..read more »
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Forrest Gump
to Watch Now
(1994)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn, Gary Sinise
Director: Robert Zemeckis
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Run time: 142 minutes
"Life is like a box of chocolates? you never know what you're gonna get." Forrest Gump is the movie triumph that became a phenomenon. Tom Hanks gives an astonishing performance as Forrest, an everyman whose simple innocence comes to embody a generation. The winner of six Academy Awards, including ..read more »
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Tom Hanks facts
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Worthy but moving 19 May 2005
...Whatever you think of this film Tom Hanks does an outstanding job as the lawyer with AIDS who sues his firm when they fire him. For its time it was groundbreaking. I h...
Go the whole mile!!! 21 March 2005
