Biography: Tom Hanks |

American leading actor Tom Hanks has become one of the most popular stars in contemporary American cinema. Born July 9, 1956, in Concord, CA, Hanks spent much of his childhood moving about with his father, an itinerant cook, and continually attempting... more
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Cast: Paul Newman   
Tags: Period Film Crime Drama Gangster Film Drama Crime 
Length: 116min
The acclaimed graphic novel from crime writer Max Allan Collins becomes this big budget Dreamworks drama from director Sam Mendes and screenwriter David Self. Tom Hanks stars as Michael Sullivan, a morally conflicted Depression-era hit man committing...

Cast: Tom Hanks Robert Zemeckis Helen Hunt   
Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure Drama 
Length: 143min
An exploration of human survival and the ability of fate to alter even the tidiest of lives with one major event, Cast Away tells the story of Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks), a Federal Express engineer who devotes most of his life to his troubleshooting...

Cast: Tim Allen   
Tags: Children's Fantasy Fantasy Comedy Family-Oriented Adventure Fantasy Family 
Length: 92min
Woody the Cowboy, Buzz Lightyear, and the rest of their friends from the toy box return in this computer-animated sequel to the 1995 hit Toy Story. This time around, Andy, the young boy who is the proud owner of most of our cast of characters, is off...

Cast: Steven Spielberg John Williams   
Tags: Ensemble Film War Epic War 
Length: 170min
Steven Spielberg directed this powerful, realistic re-creation of WWII's D-day invasion and the immediate aftermath. The story opens with a prologue in which a veteran brings his family to the American cemetery at Normandy, and a flashback then joins...

Cast: Gary Sinise   
Tags: Fantasy Drama Prison Film 
Length: 187min
Director Frank Darabont, who made an acclaimed feature film debut with The Shawshank Redemption (1994), based on a Stephen King novel set in a prison, returns for a second feature, based on King's 1996 serialized novel set in a prison. In 1935,...

Cast: Meg Ryan   
Tags: Urban Comedy Comedy Romantic Comedy 
Length: 120min
Sleepless in Seattle director Nora Ephron originally made a name for herself as the writer of omantic comedies such as Heartburn and When Harry Met Sally. She continues the genre with You've Got Mail, marking her second collaboration with actors Tom...

Cast: Tony Curtis   
Tags: Social Issues Film, TV & Radio Gender Issues History 
Length: 101min
Based on Vito Russo's groundbreaking 1981 work of film history, The Celluloid Closet gathers clips from dozens of mainstream Hollywood films to illustrate how the movies have dealt explicitly -- and more importantly, implicitly -- with gay and lesbian...

Cast: Kevin Bacon   
Tags: Historical Film Drama Docudrama Space Adventure 
Length: 140min
"Houston, we have a problem." Those words were immortalized during the tense days of the Apollo 13 lunar mission crisis, and the suspense, fear, and excitement of those days are captured in Ron Howard's epic recreation of the 1970 crisis. When the...

Tags: Comedy Drama Rock Musical Showbiz Comedy 
Length: 110min
Tom Hanks made his directorial debut in this bright comedy set in the mid-1960's about a rock group and their brief fling with fame. Guy Patterson (Tom Everett Scott) works as a salesman at his father's appliance store and plays the drums in his spare...

Tags: Children's Fantasy Fantasy Comedy Family-Oriented Adventure Family Fantasy 
Length: 80min
Toy Story was the first feature-length film animated entirely by computer. If this seems to be a sterile, mechanical means of moviemaking, be assured that the film is as chock-full of heart and warmth as any Disney cartoon feature. The star of the...

































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