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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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Tom Hanks to be honoured -
17 September 2008
The movie career of Tom Hanks is to be honoured at the Lincoln Centre's 36th annual film gala in New York.-The US actor is a two-time Oscar winner, picking up awards for his performances in Philadelphia and Forrest Gump.-According to Kent Jones, the society's direc
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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
Tom Hanks - what members say
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
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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from 31 members
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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 ..read more »
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62%
from 2,609 members
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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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61%
from 27,946 members
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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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54%
from 1,401 members
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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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69%
from 3,322 members
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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 ..read more »
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66%
from 9,229 members
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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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71%
from 6,936 members
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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 ..read more »
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72%
from 11,511 members
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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 ..read more »
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69%
from 6,535 members
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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 ..read more »
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76%
from 8,899 members
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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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82%
from 13,244 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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79%
from 186 members
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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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63%
from 5,616 members
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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 ..read more »
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from 14,728 members
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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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65%
from 358 members
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Toy Story
(2 discs)
on DVD (1995)
Starring: Tom Hanks, tom hanks (voice), annie potts (voice)
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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79%
from 10,662 members
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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 ..read more »
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72%
from 5,727 members
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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 ..read more »
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77%
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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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69%
from 6,129 members
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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 ..read more »
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74%
from 4,888 members
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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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from 803 members
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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
