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Tom Hanks

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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Tom Hanks - news / articles


  • Top 10 - Tom Hanks - 15 September 2009
    ome text- - - - - - -Splash (1984)- -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&


  • 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


  • 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


  • Philadelphia
  • Philadelphia review by A customer from Glasgow, Scotland
    Rated - 4 stars 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...  
  • The Green Mile
  • The Green Mile review by from Staffordshire, England
    Rated - 5 stars Go the whole mile!!! 21 March 2005
    ...A superb film with an impressive cast. Tom Hanks is outstanding as the Warden with a heart. The premise is intriguing and although the film runs at approx 3 hours, it ...  
  • Big
  • Big review by from Newport
    Rated - 5 stars An old classic 18 July 2005
    ...This film really reminds me of my childhood, Tom Hanks plays a child who wishes he was bigger, he visits a fayre, makes a wish and becomes an adult (to his complete surp...  

Tom Hanks - filmography


  • Toy Story in 3-D (2009)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Tim Allen,  Don Rickles
    Director: John Lasseter
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 82% from 123 members
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  • The Great Buck Howard (2008)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  John Malkovich,  Colin Hanks
    Director: Sean McGinly
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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.
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 75% from 9 members
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  • Charlie Wilson's War - HD DVD Version (2007)
    Starring: Amy Adams,  Tom Hanks,  Julia Roberts
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 79 members
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  • The Da Vinci Code on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Audrey Tautou,  Ian McKellen
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 67,756 members
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  • Polar Express on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Leslie Zemeckis,  Eddie Deezen
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 32,725 members
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  • Road To Perdition on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Tyler Hoechlin,  Paul Newman
    Director: Sam Mendes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 28,757 members
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  • Catch Me If You Can on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Leonardo DiCaprio,  Christopher Walken
    Director: Steven Spielberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 50,899 members
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  • Cast Away on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Helen Hunt,  Christopher Noth
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 22,609 members
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  • Toy Story 2 on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Tim Allen,  Joan Cusack
    Director: John Lasseter
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 45,838 members
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  • You've Got Mail on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Meg Ryan,  Greg Kinnear
    Director: Nora Ephron
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 17,942 members
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  • Toy Story on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Annie Potts,  Tim Allen
    Director: John Lasseter
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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.
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 77% from 59,042 members
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  • Apollo 13 on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Kevin Bacon,  Bill Paxton
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 18,049 members
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  • Forrest Gump on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Sam Anderson,  Sally Field
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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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 »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 74% from 49,694 members
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  • Forrest Gump - BLU-RAY Version (1994)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Sally Field,  Gary Sinise
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: £2.49
    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 »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 82% from 226 members
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  • Sleepless In Seattle on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Meg Ryan,  Tom Hanks,  Bill Pullman
    Director: Nora Ephron
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 21,016 members
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  • A League Of Their Own on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Geena Davis,  Madonna
    Director: Penny Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 3,380 members
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  • The Burbs on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Carrie Fisher,  Rick Ducommun
    Director: Joe Dante
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 5,991 members
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  • Punchline on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Sally Field,  Tom Hanks,  Kim Greist
    Director: David Seltzer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 368 members
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  • Big on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Elizabeth Perkins,  Robert Loggia
    Director: Penny Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 21,233 members
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  • Dragnet on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Dan Aykroyd,  Tom Hanks,  Harry Morgan
    Director: Tom Mankiewicz
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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'.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 4,684 members
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  • Every Time We Say Goodbye (1986)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Cristina Marsillach,  Benedict Taylor
    Director: Moshe Mizrahi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 8 members
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  • Volunteers on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  John Candy,  Rita Wilson
    Director: Nicholas Meyer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 441 members
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  • Splash on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Daryl Hannah,  Tom Hanks,  Eugene Levy
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 8,767 members
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  • Bachelor Party on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Adrian Zmed,  Tawny Kitaen
    Director: Neal Israel
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 58% from 2,784 members
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  • Toy Story 3
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Tim Allen,  Joan Cusack
    Director: Lee Unkrich
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    "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.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 299 members
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  • Bosom Buddies - Series 1 (3 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Tom Hanks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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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Tom Hanks - watch online


  • Cast Away to Watch Now (2000)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Helen Hunt,  Christopher Noth
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12 (TBC)
    Watch now: FREE
    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 »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 75% from 26 members
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  • Forrest Gump to Watch Now (1994)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Robin Wright Penn,  Gary Sinise
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12 (TBC)
    Watch now: £2.49
    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 »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 80% from 460 members
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Tom Hanks facts

5 most recent films

Angels And Demons - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Toy Story in 3-D - 4.0 stars
Angels and Demons - 3.5 stars
The Great Buck Howard - 4.0 stars
Charlie Wilson's War - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Green Mile, The - BLU-RAY Version - 4.5 stars
Toy Story in 3-D - 4.0 stars
Forrest Gump - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
The Green Mile - 4.0 stars
Toy Story - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

He Knows You're Alone - 1.5 stars
Mazes And Monsters - 2.0 stars
Bosom Buddies - Series 1 - 2.5 stars
Every Time We Say Goodbye - 2.5 stars
The Great Buck Howard - 4.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Gary Sinise - 10 times - show films
Sally Field - 7 times - show films
Robin Wright Penn - 6 times - show films
Michael Conner Humphreys - 6 times - show films
Hanna R. Hall - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Robert Zemeckis - 10 times - show films
Ron Howard - 10 times - show films
Steven Spielberg - 5 times - show films
John Lasseter - 3 times - show films
Nora Ephron - 2 times - show films


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