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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 girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt) .. Read more

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  Hanks bails out Short after fender-bender

  • WENN Newsdesk
  • 09 Mar 2012

  Martin Short has Tom Hanks to thank for bailing him out of a recent fender-bender, revealing the Cast Away star calmed the angry driver down by offering to hear his movie pitch. The Father of the Bride star was shopping near his Palisades home in New York when he spotted Hanks perusing the mall on Christmas Eve (24Dec11). The movie star asked to tag along as Short picked up a few things at the supermarket, and the 61 year old is glad Hanks did because the actor's charming nature came in handy. Read more

  

  Top 10 Tom Hanks

  • 25 Aug 2010

  Hot on the heels of Toy Story 3, we look back at the remarkable career of Tom Hanks. A truly big big-screen presence since the 80s, Hanks has played some of modern cinema's most iconic roles, both as a comedian and straight man. His repertoire stretches from Catch Me If You Can to Saving Private Ryan via the voice of Woody for the Toy Story trilogy. Check out Tom's top 10 below... His Top 10 Films Splash (1984) As the lead in Touchstone Pictures’ very first cinematic production, Tom... Read more

  

  Top 10 - Tom Hanks

  • 15 Sep 2009

  Some text Some 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’ debut as one of Hollywood’s hottest actors of all time. Walt Disney were eager to produce Splash, in favour of a similar story starring Warren Beatty, after director Ron Howard promised a lower budget and shorter production time. However,... Read more

  

  Going to Extremes

  • 27 Jan 2011

  Some actors do their job between ‘action’ and ‘cut’. Some plunge into an ocean of research with only infrequent gasps of air. And some go to such all-out, full-on, balls-to-the-wall extremes in pursuit of their art, you wonder if they’ll ever come down again. Witness Christian Bale as Exhibit A (and Exhibits B, C and D, for that matter), in The Fighter. As Dicky Eklund, half-brother to Mark Wahlberg’s light welterweight wannabe Micky Ward, he sheds the beef... Read more

  

  Sandler's Spanglish comes to DVD

  • 29 Jun 2005

  Romantic comedy Spanglish, starring Paz Vega, Adam Sandler and Tea Leoni, has been released on DVD this week. Spanglish tells the story of a Mexican woman (Vega) who becomes the housekeeper for a family in Los Angeles (Sandler and Leoni), and has to overcome the troublesome language barrier. Vega stars in her first American movie, having worked previously with Pedro Almodovar on Talk To Her. She has already been dubbed as the 'new Penelope Cruz'. She appears opposite Sandler, who has been in... Read more

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