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That Thing You Do | Year: 1996 Classification: Comedy Actors/Actresses: - Ethan Embry - Tom Hanks - Clint Howard - Kathleen Kinmont - Kevin Pollak - Giovanni Ribisi - Tom Everett Scott - Johnathon Schaech - Liv Tyler - Charlize Theron - Rita Wilson - Steve Zahn What a Great Movie! That Thing You Do! is a movie that only gets better every timeyou see it. This story of a young bad from Eerie, PA tells a commontale, that of the one-hit wonder. This film does an excellent job ofshowing a normal garage band hit it big with the success of a hit songin 1964. The band is then put on the road, signed by the Playtonelabel, and gets heavy airplay thanks to their manager, the incredibleTom Hanks. With this being the writing and directing debut ofHanks, it is one incredible piece of work. This film has a rapid firestory line. It includes many events of the bands rise to fame in ashort amount of time, but also shows what can ultimatly happen to anoverworked band. This film does well by the superb acting jobs by allof the band members, most notably Jimmy (Jonathan Schaech) and theincredible performance by Tom Everett Scott as Guy "Shades"Paterson. This natives with bad wigs and sun burned skin are too ignorant to help the cr Savini directed this color remake of the landmark 1968 film, which really doesn't offer us anything the original doesn't - especially since the black and white lf and the rookie receptionist. Speaking of which, Teri Garr didn't impress me as the young and slightly dense Roberta Lincoln, whose personality consisted of an annoying meld of ditzy naivete and "whoa, far out, man"-style hippiness. She also has way-too-easy access to her new boss' hi-tech equipment, which she always seems to discover by accident. The addition of the shape-shifting feline Isis and her pathetically fake Z . Result: Lousy B-movie scripts. Only 5-6 episodes are truly good. But then Seasons 2-5 arrive, and the series truly shines. This is the CORE of the Babylon 5 story. a two-parter which essentially brings cl own uncut, widescreen versions on DVD Buy That Thing You Do at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on That Thing You Do Search with the Priority Search Engine on That Thing You Do This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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