That Thing You Do (Widescreen) – DVD (Used)

Description

Author: Tom Hanks

Format: Anamorphic

Release Date: 05-06-2001

Details: 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 »

UPC: 002454301641

EAN: 0024543016410

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood