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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


  • Tom Hanks apologises for swearing on TV - 19 October 2012
    -Tom Hanks turned the airwaves blue on American breakfast TV on Friday (19Oct12) by accidentally cursing during an interview.-The Hollywood actor was being interviewed by Elizabeth Vargas on Good Morning America to promote his latest movie Cloud Atlas, in which he



  • Tom Hanks pens moving tribute to Nora Ephron - 28 June 2012
    -Actor Tom Hanks has penned a moving tribute to Nora Ephron, revealing he became a fan of the late screenwriter and director after his wife Rita Wilson dragged him to a screening of her movie This Is My Life.-The moviemaker died on Tuesday (26Jun12) after losing he

Tom Hanks - what members say


  • The Green Mile
  • The Green Mile review by from Staffordshire, England
    Rated - 5.0 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 ...   Read customer review
  • Forrest Gump
  • Forrest Gump review by A customer from Maida Vale
    Rated - 5.0 stars A lovely movie of rare brilliance 18 November 2003
    ...I'd forgotten how touching this movie is. Tom Hanks is absolutely amazing and shows that he is at the very top of his game - it's impossible to imagine any other contem...   Read customer review
  • Toy Story
  • Toy Story review by JediSi from Kent
    Rated - 5.0 stars Where animated films turned a big corner 25 August 2007
    ...ng on his efforts against Buzz, they both miss the all important moving day. Tom Hanks and Tim Allen provided excellent voices for Woody and Buzz Lightyear -their per...   Read customer review

Tom Hanks - filmography


  • Cloud Atlas - Blu-ray (2012)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Halle Berry,  Hugh Grant
    Director: Tom Tykwer,  Andy Wachowski
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.
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  • Radioman (2012)
    Starring: Josh Brolin,  Craig Castaldo,  Clooney
    Director: Mary Kerr
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    The New York film set mascot who overcame homelessness and alcoholism to become a fixture of the New York film industry, with over 100 small parts to his name.
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 7 members
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  • Cloud Atlas (2012)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Halle Berry,  Hugh Grant
    Director: Tom Tykwer,  Andy Wachowski
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 240 members
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  • Larry Crowne on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Julia Roberts,  Taraji P. Henson
    Director: Tom Hanks
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Until he was downsized, affable, amiable Larry Crowne (Hanks) was a superstar team leader at the big-box company where he’s worked since his time in the Navy. Underwater on his mortgage and unclear on what to do with his suddenly free days, Larry heads to his local college to start over. There he ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 13,465 members
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  • Larry Crowne - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Julia Roberts,  Taraji P. Henson
    Director: Tom Hanks
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Until he was downsized, affable, amiable Larry Crowne (Hanks) was a superstar team leader at the big-box company where he’s worked since his time in the Navy. Underwater on his mortgage and unclear on what to do with his suddenly free days, Larry heads to his local college to start over. There he ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 3,049 members
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  • Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Sandra Bullock,  John Goodman
    Director: Stephen Daldry
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Oskar is convinced that his father, who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a final message for him hidden somewhere in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother and driven by a relentlessly active mind that refuses to believe in things that can't be observed, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 4,769 members
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  • Toy Story 3 on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Tim Allen,  Joan Cusack
    Director: Lee Unkrich
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    "Toy Story 3" welcomes Woody, Buzz and the whole gang back to the big screen as Andy prepares to depart for college and his loyal toys find themselves in daycare! These untamed tots with their sticky little fingers do not play nice, so it's all for one and one for all as plans for the great escape ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 85% from 53,666 members
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  • Toy Story 3 - Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Tim Allen,  Joan Cusack
    Director: Lee Unkrich
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    "Toy Story 3" welcomes Woody, Buzz and the whole gang back to the big screen as Andy prepares to depart for college and his loyal toys find themselves in daycare! These untamed tots with their sticky little fingers do not play nice, so it's all for one and one for all as plans for the great escape ..read more »
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  • Toy Story 3 - 3D Blu-ray (2010)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Tim Allen,  Joan Cusack
    Director: Lee Unkrich
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    "Toy Story 3" welcomes Woody, Buzz and the whole gang back to the big screen as Andy prepares to depart for college and his loyal toys find themselves in daycare! These untamed tots with their sticky little fingers do not play nice, so it's all for one and one for all as plans for the great escape ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 82% from 1,249 member
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  • Toy Story - 3D Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Tim Allen,  Joan Cusack
    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 »
    4.5 stars out of 5 87% from 492 members
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  • Toy Story in 3-D (2009)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Tim Allen,  Joan Cusack
    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 »
    4 stars out of 5 84% from 572 members
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  • The Great Buck Howard (2008)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  John Malkovich,  Colin Hanks
    Director: Sean McGinly
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 298 members
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  • The City Of Ember - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Bill Murray,  Tim Robbins,  Saoirse Ronan
    Director: Gil Kenan
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Family sci-fi adventure starring Bill Murray and Tim Robbins. The City of Ember is an underground city built to last 200 years to house humankind following an unspecified disaster. However, the 200-year mark has been and gone and the city is running low on food and energy. The technological ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 969 members
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  • Angels and Demons on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Ayelet Zurer,  Ewan McGregor
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 52,829 members
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  • Charlie Wilson's War on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Erick Avari,  Tom Hanks,  Julia Roberts
    Director: Mike Nichols
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 51,153 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.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 77,381 members
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  • The Ant Bully on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Nicolas Cage,  Alan Cumming,  Zach Tyler Eisen
    Director: John A. Davis
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Computer-animated comedy adventure. Lucas Nickle (voice of Zach Tyler Eisen) is a ten-year-old boy whose family has just moved to a new town, and Lucas isn't enjoying it much. He hasn't made any friends yet, his big sister ignores him, his parents (Larry Miller and Cheri Oteri) are occupied with ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 14,116 members
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  • The Da Vinci Code - Blu-ray (2006)
    Starring: Etienne Chicot,  Jean Reno,  Seth Gabel
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Thriller based on the best-selling novel by Dan Brown. When respected American religious symbology expert Dr. Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) is summoned to the Louvre by the French version of the FBI, led by Captain Bezu Fache (Jean Reno), he soon discovers that he is the prime suspect for the murder ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 3,154 members
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  • Ant Bully - Blu-ray (2006)
    Starring: Nicolas Cage,  Alan Cumming,  Zach Tyler Eisen
    Director: John A. Davis
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Computer-animated comedy adventure. Lucas Nickle (voice of Zach Tyler Eisen) is a ten-year-old boy whose family has just moved to a new town, and Lucas isn't enjoying it much. He hasn't made any friends yet, his big sister ignores him, his parents (Larry Miller and Cheri Oteri) are occupied with ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 564 members
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  • Starter For 10 on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Charles Dance,  Alice Eve,  Mark Gatiss
    Director: Tom Vaughan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Coming-of-age comedy drama set in the mid-1980s, starring James McAvoy as working-class Essex boy Brian Jackson, who navigates his way through his first year at Bristol University and struggles to achieve his long-held ambition to appear on the TV quiz show Univeristy Challenge. Comedienne ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 28,723 members
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  • Saturday Night Live - Tom Hanks on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Tom Hanks
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A collection of skits and hosting jobs by Tom Hanks from the long-running American stand-up comedy show 'Saturday Night Live'.
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 62 members
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  • The Polar Express on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Eddie Deezen,  Tom Hanks,  Brenda King
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    A young boy lies awake in his room one snowy Christmas Eve, excited and alert. Breathing silently. Hardly moving. Waiting. He's listening for a sound he's afraid that he might never hear--the ringing bells of Santa's sleigh. The time is five minutes to midnight. Suddenly, a thunderous roar startles ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 36,784 members
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  • The Terminal on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Catherine Zeta Jones,  Stanley Tucci
    Director: Steven Spielberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Steven Spielberg-directed comedy starring Tom Hanks set almost entirely in an airport terminal. Viktor Navorski (Hanks) always planned to emigrate from his Eastern European homeland to the USA - but his plans were swiftly accelerated by the outbreak of war, and he finds himself on a plane headed ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 64% from 83,440 members
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  • The Polar Express - Blu-ray (2004)
    Starring: Eddie Deezen,  Tom Hanks,  Brenda King
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    The academy Award-winning team of Tom Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis reunite for 'The Polar Express', an inspiring adventure based on the beloved children's book by Chris Van Allsburg. Late on Christmas Eve night, a boy (Daryl Sabara) lies in bed hoping to hear the sound of reindeer bells from ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 1,433 member
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  • Connie And Carla (2004)
    Starring: David Duchovny,  Nia Vardalos,  Toni Collette
    Director: Michael Lembeck
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Exuberant gender-bending comedy punctuated with musical numbers, starring Nia Vardalos and Toni Collette as best friends Connie and Carla. The two women have always dreamed of fame and fortune, but are instead stuck with a career on the bottom rung of the showbiz ladder, playing Chicago's wine bar ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 5,638 members
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  • The Ladykillers (2004)
    Starring: Tzi Ma,  J.K. Simmons,  Irma P. Hall
    Director: Ethan Coen,  Joel Coen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Coen brothers' remake of the 1955 Ealing comedy classic starring Alec Guiness, displaced from the English suburbs of the original to the American Southern Bible Belt. Tom Hanks stars as Professor Goldthwait Higginson Dorr, a charming and loquacious Southern professor with dubious credentials who ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 30,042 members
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  • The Polar Express - 3D Blu-ray (2004)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Leslie Zemeckis,  Eddie Deezen
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The ultimare feel good festive film is brought to life in 3D Santa Claus does not exist. Or does he? For one doubting boy (voice of Daryl Sabara & Tom Hanks), an astonishing event occurs. Late on Christmas Eve night, he lies in bed hoping to hear the sound of reindeer bells from Santa's sleigh. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 82 members
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  • Catch Me If You Can on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Martin Sheen,  Nathalie Baye,  Brian Howe
    Director: Steven Spielberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks star in this crime-caper by Steven Spielberg, based on the true story of Frank W. Abagnale Junior. As a teenager, Abagnale (DiCaprio) discovers he has a talent for impersonating officials, beginning with posing as a substitute teacher. Finding solace in his new gift -..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 59,232 members
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  • My Big Fat Greek Wedding on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Michael Constantine,  Lainie Kazan,  Nia Vardalos
    Director: Joel Zwick
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Toula Portokalos (Nia Vardalos) is an unmarried thirty-year-old who lives in Chicago and works in her father's Greek restaurant. When she meets and falls for high school teacher Ian Miller (John Corbett), a quick makeover and some careful manoeuvring is all it takes for the pair to start dating. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 23,609 members
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  • Road To Perdition - Blu-ray (2002)
    Starring: Dylan Baker,  Liam Aiken,  Paul Newman
    Director: Sam Mendes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Tom Hanks stars in this gangster drama set in the American Midwest during the 1930s. Twelve-year-old Michael Sullivan Jr is curious about what his father (Hanks) does for a living, and one night decides to hide in his car as he goes off to work. It soon transpires that the elder Sullivan is a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 459 members
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  • Road To Perdition (2002)
    Starring: Dylan Baker,  Liam Aiken,  Paul Newman
    Director: Sam Mendes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Tom Hanks stars in this gangster drama set in the American Midwest during the 1930s. Twelve-year-old Michael Sullivan Jr is curious about what his father (Hanks) does for a living, and one night decides to hide in his car as he goes off to work. It soon transpires that the elder Sullivan is a ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 33,279 members
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  • Cast Away on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Helen Hunt,  Christopher Noth,  Tom Hanks
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Systems engineer Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) says goodbye to his girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt) and heads off on a flight to South America. En route the plane crashes into the Pacific Ocean, leaving Chuck as its only survivor. Luckily, there is an uninhabited island nearby and Chuck manages to swim to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 27,170 members
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  • Cast Away - Blu-ray (2000)
    Starring: Helen Hunt,  Christopher Noth,  Tom Hanks
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Systems engineer Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) says goodbye to his girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt) and heads off on a flight to South America. En route the plane crashes into the Pacific Ocean, leaving Chuck as its only survivor. Luckily, there is an uninhabited island nearby and Chuck manages to swim to ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 346 members
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  • Toy Story 2 on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Wallace Shawn,  Joan Cusack,  Kelsey Grammer
    Director: Lee Unkrich,  John Lasseter
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    "Toy Story 2" is the exciting, all-new sequel to the landmark 1995 computer-animated blockbuster from Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar Animation Studios. This time around, the fun and adventure continue when Andy goes off to summer camp and the toys are left to their own devices. Things shift into ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 57,228 members
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  • The Green Mile on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Patricia Clarkson,  Bonnie Hunt,  Michael Clarke Duncan
    Director: Frank Darabont
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Screen adaptation of Stephen King's best-seller. In 1935 Louisiana prison guard Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) meets convict John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan) and it is an experience which will change his life forever. Coffey, an eight foot giant, is on Death Row convicted of the murder of two ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 74,085 members
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  • Toy Story 2 - 3D Blu-ray (1999)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Tim Allen,  Joan Cusack
    Director: John Lasseter,  Lee Unkrich
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    This sequel to 'Toy Story' sees pull-string cowboy Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks) kidnapped by toy collector Al, who plans to sell him to a Japanese toy museum. Assisted by Mr Potato Head, Slinky Dog and Rex the Dinosaur, action figure Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) sets off to the rescue, but when they ..read more »
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  • Toy Story 2 - Blu-ray (1999)
    Starring: Wallace Shaw,  ,  
    Director: Lee Unkrich,  John Lasseter
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    This sequel to 'Toy Story' sees pull-string cowboy Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks) kidnapped by toy collector Al, who plans to sell him to a Japanese toy museum. Assisted by Mr Potato Head, Slinky Dog and Rex the Dinosaur, action figure Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) sets off to the rescue, but when they ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 86% from 2,861 members
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  • The Green Mile - Blu-ray (1999)
    Starring: Patricia Clarkson,  Eve Brent,  Bonnie Hunt
    Director: Frank Darabont
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Screen adaptation of Stephen King's best-seller. In 1935 Louisiana prison guard Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) meets convict John Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan) and it is an experience which will change his life forever. Coffey, an eight foot giant, is on Death Row convicted of the murder of two ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 88% from 2,894 members
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  • Saving Private Ryan on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Ted Danson,  Giovanni Ribisi,  Vin Diese
    Director: Steven Spielberg
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Steven Spielberg's Oscar winning, epic, World War 2 drama is set against the backdrop of the Normandy landings. A squad of American soldiers, led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks), receive top-level instructions to undertake an unusual mission: to rescue Private James Ryan (Matt Damon), whose ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 67,774 members
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  • You've Got Mail on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Michael Badalucco,  Tom Hanks,  Steve Zahn
    Director: Nora Ephron
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Joe Fox (Tom Hanks) and Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan) are rivals in business: he working for Fox & Sons, a chain of discount bookstores; she owning a tiny bookshop of her own. However, unaware of their true identities, Kathleen and Joe have begun communicating anonymously via an e-mail chat room, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 20,640 members
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  • From The Earth To The Moon (5 discs) on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Mason Adams,  Tom Hanks,  Krista Adair
    Director: Sally Field,  David Carson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Made to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of man's first steps onto the moon's surface, this five-volume box set contains reconstructions of the American space dream, chronicling the events of each of the Apollo missions. Tom Hanks (who also directs and writes one of the ten episodes), Sally ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 742 members
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  • That Thing You Do! on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Johnathon Schaech,  Liv Tyler,  Kevin Polla
    Director: Tom Hanks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In 1964, Guy Patterson (Tom Everett Scott) joins his friends Jimmy and Lenny in their beat group, the Wonders. After playing at a pasta joint, they garner a local following, and are eventually offered a contract for a record and tour by Play-Tone Records' Mr White (Tom Hanks, who also writes and ..read more »
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  • Toy Story - Blu-ray (1995)
    Starring: Don Rickles,  John Morris,  John Ratzenberger
    Director: John Lasseter
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Award winning computer-animated Disney adventure, about toys which come to life as soon as their owner, Andy, leaves the room. Pull-string cowboy Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks) is Andy's favourite toy until Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) arrives. The two have an ongoing feud, but are forced to team up ..read more »
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  • Toy Story on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Annie Potts,  Tim Allen
    Director: John Lasseter
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    As 6-year-old Andy's favourite toy, Woody (Tom Hanks), a take-charge, pull-string cowboy, is confident in his role as room leader. But after Andy's birthday party, newcomer Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), a flashy space ranger with laser action and pop-out wings, crash-lands into Woody's world. Buzz ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 71,633 members
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  • Apollo 13 on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Bill Paxton,  Kevin Bacon,  Tom Hanks
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Ron Howard has re-created the drama of the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 moon mission -- the failure that showed NASA at its best -- with nail-biting detail and spectacular visual integrity.
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 21,773 members
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  • Apollo 13 - Blu-ray (1995)
    Starring: Bill Paxton,  Kevin Bacon,  Tom Hanks
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Ron Howard's Oscar-winning take on the Apollo 13 story. The mission, manned by astronauts Lovell (Tom Hanks), Swigert (Kevin Bacon) and Haise (Bill Paxton), starts out as a routine spaceflight which generates little media interest. But all that changes when an oxygen tank explosion cripples the ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 396 members
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  • Forrest Gump on DVD (1994)
    Starring: John Randell,  Sam Anderson,  Mykelti Williamson
    Director: Robert Zemeckis
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Robert Zemeckis' award-winning fable about the American dream. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) is a good-natured but simple man. As he recounts his home-spun words of wisdom, he reminisces on his life's progress, from crippled child to decorated military hero, illustrating how America has changed over the ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 60,114 members
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  • Sleepless in Seattle on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Bill Pullman,  Rosie O'Donnell,  Ross Malinger
    Director: Nora Ephron
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks) has lost his wife to cancer and, left to bring up his son alone, tries to make a new start by moving to Seattle. His son turns him into a radio heartthrob, however, when he makes an on-air appeal to potential partners for his grief-stricken father. Annie Reed (Meg Ryan), ..read more »
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  • Philadelphia (1993)
    Starring: Denzel Washington,  Tom Hanks,  Antonio Banderas
    Director: Jonathan Demme
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    At the time of its release, Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia was the first big-budget Hollywood film to tackle the medical, political, and social issues of AIDS. Tom Hanks, in his first Academy Award-winning performance, plays Andrew Beckett, a talented lawyer at a stodgy Philadelphia law firm. The ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 20,426 members
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  • A League Of Their Own on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Janet Jones,  Lori Petty,  Madonna
    Director: Penny Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The All-American Girls' Professional Baseball League was founded in 1943, when most of the men of baseball-playing age were far away in Europe and Asia fighting World War II. The league flourished until after World War II, when, with the men's return, the league was consigned to oblivion. Director ..read more »
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  • The Burbs on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Corey Feldman,  Tom Hanks,  Bruce Dern
    Director: Joe Dante
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Life is pleasant, if dull, in the suburb of Hinckley Hills until the weird Klopeks move in next door to Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks). When Ray decides to spend his week's vacation relaxing at home, he soon allows himself to be persuaded by his other neighbours that the Klopeks are in fact marauding ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 7,721 members
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  • Turner & Hooch on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Craig T. Nelson,  Tom Hanks,  Clyde Kusatsu
    Director: Roger Spottiswoode
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    A small-town police detective named Turner (Tom Hanks) finally runs across a real crime when an old sailor is murdered on a barge in the harbour. The only witness is the sailor's slobbering dog, Hooch. Turner takes the dog into his home, which the canine proceeds to wreck, but the unlikely team of ..read more »
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  • Punchline on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Damon Wayans,  Mark Rydell,  Sally Field
    Director: David Seltzer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Steven (Tom Hanks) is a medical student and Lilah (Sally Field) is a housewife. They both have ambitions to be stand-up comics and meet while performing at the Gas Station club in Manhattan. Despite their differences in age and class, they fall in love, but tensions arise when they are both ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 494 members
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  • Big on DVD (1988)
    Starring: David Moscow,  Jamie Tirelli,  Tracy Reiner
    Director: Penny Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    More than anything else, 13-year old New Jerseyite Josh (David Moscow) wants to be big. That's the wish he makes at an odd-looking amusement pier fortunetelling machine. The next morning, Josh wakes up-only to discover that he's grown to manhood overnight! (At this point, the part is taken over by ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 25,143 members
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  • Dragnet on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Christopher Plummer,  Alexandra Paul,  Tom Hanks
    Director: Tom Mankiewicz
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    In this send up of the cult Fifties television programme, Dan Aykroyd plays police sergeant Joe Friday - bumbling nephew of the small screen original. With his new partner Peb Streebek (Tom Hanks), Friday is appointed to investigate the goings-on of a cult run by a porn magazine king (Dabney ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 5,310 members
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  • Nothing In Common on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Hector Elizondo,  Tom Hanks,  Sela Ward
    Director: Garry Marshall
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    David Basner (Tom Hanks) is a successful advertising executive enjoying the joys of the bachelor life in the big city. But all that changes when his mother Lorraine (Eva Marie Saint) leaves his stubborn, troublesome father Max (Jackie Gleason). David now has to intercede on the old man's behalf and ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 397 members
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  • The Money Pit on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Mike Starr,  Brian Backer,  Carmine Caridi
    Director: Richard Benjamin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A New York couple (Tom Hanks and Shelley Long) buy a bargain basement house in the country, but when they try to turn it into their dream home, they realise why it was so cheap. Not only do they have to deal with the structural integrity of the building, but also with the conning and conniving ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 7,292 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 »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 20 members
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  • Volunteers on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Tim Thomerson,  John Candy,  Tom Hanks
    Director: Nicholas Meyer
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Lawrence Bourne III (Tom Hanks) is a snide, rich, playboy, who runs up a series of gambling debts and has to make a quick exit. His only means of escape is through enlisting in the Peace Corps in Thailand. There, he meets a variety of American volunteers, whose gung-ho enthusiasm ensures a clash of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 620 members
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  • The Man With One Red Shoe on DVD (1985)
    Starring: James Belushi,  David Ogden Stiers,  Tom Hanks
    Director: Stan Dragoti
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Tom Hanks stars in this re-make of the 1972 French film 'The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe'. An unsuspecting violinist (Hanks) is drawn into a power struggle within the CIA and used as a decoy by the current head of the CIA to foil his rivals within the organisation.
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 1,111 member
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  • Splash on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Daryl Hannah,  John Candy,  Tom Hanks
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    I'm in love with a mermaid! read the opening line of Leonard Maltin's original review for Splash. And with the delightful Darryl Hannah in the lead, who could fault Maltin for his public declaration of ardor? The story begins in 1959, when a young boy is rescued from a watery grave by an adolescent ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 10,325 members
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  • Bachelor Party on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Tawny Kitaen,  Tom Hanks,  George Grizzard
    Director: Neal Israel
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Vintage 1980s comedy. When bachelor Rick (Tom Hanks) finally decides to marry Debbie (Tawny Kitaen), his friends decide that they should send him out with the party of a lifetime. Of course, it's not long before the craziness gets out of control, with a donkey snorting cocaine, women being chased ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 3,417 members
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  • Mazes And Monsters on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Peter Donat,  Wendy Crewson,  James O'Regan
    Director: Steven H. Stern
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A young Tom Hanks stars in this made-for-TV teen fantasy thriller about four college students who move their 'Dungeons and Dragons' session to a nearby cave where the mystical element of their game threatens to take over, blurring the line between fantasy and reality.
    2 stars out of 5 39% from 84 members
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  • Bosom Buddies - Series 1 (3 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Tom Hanks
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    All 19 episodes from Season 1 of the 1980s US sitcom starring Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari, in which two single men disguise themselves as women to enable them to live in the only apartment they can afford. Episodes are: 'Bosom Buddies', 'My Brother, My Sister, Myself', 'Loathe Thy Neighbor', 'Macho ..read more »
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Tom Hanks facts

5 most recent films

Cloud Atlas - Blu-ray - 3 stars
Radioman - 3.0 stars
Cloud Atlas - 3.5 stars
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Larry Crowne - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Toy Story - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Saving Private Ryan - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
The Green Mile - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Toy Story - 3D Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Toy Story 2 - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Cloud Atlas - Blu-ray - 3 stars
He Knows You're Alone - 2.5 stars
Bosom Buddies - Series 1 - 2.5 stars
Every Time We Say Goodbye - 3.0 stars
Radioman - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Tim Allen - 14 times - show films
Don Rickles - 14 times - show films
John Ratzenberger - 11 times - show films
Julia Roberts - 11 times - show films
Wallace Shawn - 10 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Robert Zemeckis - 20 times - show films
Ron Howard - 14 times - show films
Steven Spielberg - 12 times - show films
John Lasseter - 11 times - show films
Lee Unkrich - 10 times - show films