| That Thing You Do! (1996)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Tom Everett Scott |
Guy Patterson
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| Charlize Theron |
Tina
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| Liv Tyler |
Faye Dolan
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| Steve Zahn |
Lenny Haise
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| Ethan Embry |
T. B. Player
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| Tom Hanks |
Mr. White
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| Johnathon Schaech |
Jimmy Mattingly
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| Obba Babatundé |
Lamarr
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| Giovanni Ribisi |
Chad
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| Chris Ellis |
Phil Horace
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Comedy |
| Director |
Tom Hanks |
| Producer |
Johnathan Demme; Edward Saxon; Jonathan Demme; Gary Goetzman |
| Writer |
Tom Hanks |
| Studio |
20th Century Fox |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| Running Time |
105 mins |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
| IMDb Rating |
6.5 |
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| Plot |
| 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 cutting their first record, to going on tour with a Phil Spector/Motown-type revue, to the internal tensions that lead to the band's disintegration, which comes when they fail to follow up their smash hit single, "That Thing You Do!" And that song, by the way, is so catchy it would definitely have been a hit in 1964--and deserves to be one today. This delightful movie would make a great double-bill with Allison Anders's wonderful Grace of My Heart. --Jim Emerson |
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| Product Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
1.85:1 |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
024543016410 |
| Chapters |
30 |
| Release Date |
6/5/2001 |
| Subtitles |
English; Spanish |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Audio Tracks |
English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
French Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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Interactive Menus
Scene Selection
Original Theatrical Trailer
TV Spots
2 Music Featurette Video
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