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That Thing You Do!
1996 1h 48m PG
Comedy
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Drama
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7.0
93%
78%
69%
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A local Pennsylvania band scores a one-hit wonder in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as they can, with lots of help from their manager.
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Directed By
Tom Hanks
Written By
Tom Hanks
Studio
Clinica Estetico
,
Clavius Base
,
20th Century Fox
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Cast of That Thing You Do!
Tom Hanks
Mr. White
Tom Everett Scott
Guy Patterson
Liv Tyler
Faye Dolan
Johnathon Schaech
Jimmy Mattingly
Steve Zahn
Lenny Haise
Ethan Embry
T.B. Player
Charlize Theron
Tina
Obba Babatundé
Lamarr
Giovanni Ribisi
Chad
Chris Ellis
Phil Horace
Alex Rocco
Sol Siler
Bill Cobbs
Del Paxton
Peter Scolari
Troy Chesterfield
Rita Wilson
Margueritte
Chris Isaak
Uncle Bob
Kevin Pollak
Boss Vic Koss
Robert Torti
Freddy Fredrickson
Chaille Percival
Diane Dane
Holmes Osborne
Mr. Patterson
Claudia Stedelin
Mrs. Patterson
Dawn Maxey
Darlene Patterson
Jack Milo
Villapiano
Keith Neubert
Dentist
Lee Everett
Kitty
Sean Whalen
Heckler
Clint Howard
KJZZ Disk Jockey
Sarah Koskoff
Chrissy Thomkins
Mark Brettschneider
Talent Show Emcee
Kathleen Kinmont
Koss' Secretary
Warren Berlinger
Polaroid T.V. Host
Clive Rosengren
Wisconsin Cop
Brittney Powell
Shades Fan
Jonathan Demme
Major Motion Picture Director
Erika Greene
Major Motion Picture Assistant Director
Dave Oliver
Rick
Tracy Reiner
Anita
Barry Sobel
Goofball
Paul Feig
KMPC DJ
Gedde Watanabe
Play-Tone Photographer
Michael P. Byrne
Play-Tone Reporter
Dick Corman
Play-Tone Reporter
Diane McGee
Play-Tone Reporter
Randy Fechter
Play-Tone Tour Manager
Mars Callahan
Ernie the Disc Master Engineer
Benjamin John Parrillo
Marine Sergeant
Robert Ridgely
Hollywood Showcase Announcer
Marc McClure
Hollywood Showcase Director
Karen Praxel
Hollywood Showcase Script Supervisor
Paulie DiCocco
Hollywood Showcase Floor Manager
Bryan Cranston
Virgil "Gus" Grissom
Charlie Frye
Plate Spinner
Colin Hanks
Male Page
Elizabeth Hanks
Bored Girl in Dress Shop
Renée Lippin
Beautician
Robert Wisdom
Bobby Washington
Gina Aponte
Band Fan (uncredited)
Heather Hewitt
Sales Lady
That Thing You Do! Reviews
New York Times
Janet Maslin
Mr. Hanks's debut feature, written and directed with delightful good cheer, is rock-and-roll nostalgia presented as pure fizz.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Without hauling in a lot of deep meanings, it remembers with great warmth a time and a place.
Variety
Emanuel Levy
A sweet, likeable tale of the quick rise to fame and then demise of a small town band. Set in 1964, Hanks' film offers a sanitized, Gump-ish look at a mythical period when boys were boys and girls were girls, with no references to the sex-drug subculture
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
It's a pleasant little film with a big profile, thanks to Tom Hanks, who wrote and directed and gave himself a plum role as the band's hard-nosed manager.
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
That Thing You Do! is a credible first effort.
USA Today
Mike Clark
Hanks has good "Thing" going.
Detroit News
Susan Stark
...a larky but observant comedy.
Austin Chronicle
Hollis Chacona
In his first effort at directing a feature film, Hanks chooses his material wisely and writes it with witty, beguiling charm.
Hollywood Reporter
Duane Byrge
The chief wonder of this rock 'n' roll cast is Tom Everett Scott, whose easy charisma, dreamy smile and undersurface intelligence should shoot him up the acting charts like a bullet.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Though Hanks keeps the satirical and critical aspects of this look at show biz fairly light, there's a lot of conviction and savvy behind the steadiness of his gaze.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
First-time writer/director Tom Hanks stays about a half-beat ahead of the cliches with rim shots of boyish enthusiasm and deft comedy. The movie's also buoyed by the title song, whose Beatles sound is infectious enough to merit a real hit.
Washington Post
Richard Harrington
Though Hanks doesn't serve up much context, he's solid with details, and the Wonders' performances ring truer than most.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
...a brightly entertaining blend of humor and heartbreak about four fresh-faced guys in a band from Erie, Pa.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
Leaving audiences feeling good is very much, and very successfully, on its mind.
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
...a movie that, like many a pop tune, has a cute idea but a simpleminded lyric.
Film.com
Tom Keogh
Hanks evokes astonishingly precise memories of the time.
Houston Chronicle
Jeff Millar
In the end, the movie simply clicks. It is a class act all the way.
Cinemixtape
J. Olson
It's absolutely impossible not to smile when "The Wonders" hear their song on the radio for the first time.
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