Showing posts with label Starring: Tom Hanks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Starring: Tom Hanks. Show all posts

Philadelphia (1993)

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Directed by Jonathan Demme, this is an emotional drama starring Tom Hanks as Andy Beckett, a lawyer who is dismissed from his firm for being...

Big (1988)

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Extremely charming comedy starring Tom Hanks as Josh, a 13-year-old boy who – because of some vague magic that takes place with a fairgroun...

Charlie Wilson’s War (2007)

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Directed by Mike Nichols , this is based on a true story.  A US congressman takes it upon himself to assist the Afghan troops suffering at t...

Larry Crowne (2011)

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Strange – and strangely enjoyable – romantic comedy that’s neither especially funny nor romantic.  Tom Hanks plays a middle-aged man who lo...

The Terminal (2004)

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Baffling Steven Spielberg comedy-drama. Tom Hanks plays Viktor Navorski, an Eastern European man who ends up stuck in J.F.K. airport when ...

Forrest Gump (1994)

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Masterful comedy-drama directed by Robert Zemeckis .  Tom Hanks plays a simple but kindhearted man whose life unexpectedly touches those ar...

The Post (2017)

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I’m not much of a Spielberg fan, as documented elsewhere , but I bought this without realising he was involved.  It tells the story of how t...

Apollo 13 (1995)

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Ron Howard ’s version of the events of April 1970 in which a planned Moon mission goes horribly wrong after an explosion loses vital fuel an...

Sully: Miracle on the Hudson (2016)

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Reasonably engrossing saga of the true-life events of 15th January 2009, when Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger landed a damaged Airbus ...

Road to Perdition (2002)

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Crime thriller set in 1931. Tom Hanks plays a mobster out to kill the man ( Daniel Craig ) who murdered his wife and youngest son. Paul N...

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

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I overcame my Steven Spielberg prejudice (haven’t liked one of his films since  Duel  or  Jaws ) to watch this World War II epic. The batt...

Cast Away (2000)

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Yet another Tom Hanks film. A FedEx engineer has his plane crash and survives four years on a desert island before making a raft and attem...

You've Got Mail (1998)

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A sort of remake of the 1940 James Stewart film The Shop Around the Corner . Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan are reunited from Sleepless in Seattl...

Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

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Wonderful romantic comedy. It’s extremely well-written and would work well as a play – it’s all dialogue. No helicopter crashes here.  Meg ...

Captain Phillips (2013)

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Terrifying true-life story about a Maersk cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates.  The film steadily ramps up the tension to unbearable leve...

Splash (1984)

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Hugely entertaining film about a mermaid and a young New Yorker who fall in love. There’s lots of comedy value in the “life viewed through...