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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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Hanks lands Da Vinci role -
15 November 2004
Tom Hanks looks set to play the lead in the film version of the celebrated Dan Brown novel, The Da Vinci Code.-Hanks, one of Hollywood's hottest properties, is said to be top of director Ron Howard's wanted list.-The Da Vinci Code is the number one best seller tell
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Tom Hanks lacks direction -
9 June 2004
Multi Oscar winner Tom Hanks has said he will not direct any more films, as he thinks it is too much work.-The last film the actor directed was "That Thing You Do" in 1996. The film grossed $26 million overall, less than a third of what "Harry Potte
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Tom Hanks - filmography
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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 - 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'...
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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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Who Killed The Electric Car?
on DVD (2006)
Starring: martin sheen (voice), Martin Sheen, Mel Gibson
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 ...
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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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Polar Express, The - HD DVD Version
(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 ...
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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 ...
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The Terminal
(2 discs)
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 ...
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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 ...
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Catch Me If You Can
(2 discs)
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 ...
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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,...
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Cast Away
(2 discs)
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 ...
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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 ...
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Toy Story 2
(2 discs)
on DVD (1999)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack
Director: John Lasseter
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In this dazzling sequel to the 1995 blockbuster, Andy heads off to summer camp, leaving the toys behind to fend for themselves. In much the same way Buzz discovered he is a mass-produced product in the first installment, Woody discovers that he is a valuable collectible spawned by a popular 1950s ...
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Saving Private Ryan
(2 discs)
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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 (...
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Apollo 13
(2 discs)
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 ...
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Forrest Gump
(2 discs)
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 ...
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Philadelphia
(2 discs)
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 ...
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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-...
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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'...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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'...
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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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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
