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That Thing You Do (1996)
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Tom Hanks's debut as a writer and director is a lively, affectionate account of the shooting-star career of a forgotten (fictional) '60s pop-rock band called The Wonders--as in "one-hit wonders." Hanks plays the manager of the group, which includes drummer Guy "Sticks" Patterson (Tom Everett Scott) who works the floor at his parents' appliance store in Erie, Pennsylvania; Jimmy (Johnathon Schaech), the talented and temperamental lead singer and songwriter; Lenny (Steve Zahn), the goofy guitarist; and Ethan Embry as a geeky little fellow identified in the cast list only as "The Bass Player." The movie traces their meteoric rise and fall, from...
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That Thing You Do Movie Review by Zara  (3/14/2007) |
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As a movie, this isn't the best. It has weak actors (not enough Hanks, too much Tom Everett Scott and Johnathon Schaech), with characters that you don't really care about and of course a song that drives you absolutely batty even before the movie is over.
However, as a social statement of what the music industry does to...
(complete That Thing You Do review by Zara)
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