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Actor: Tom Hanks, starred in:
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| 1. A League of Their Own (year: 1992) |
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The All-American Girls' Professional Baseball League was founded in 1943, when most of the men of baseball-playing age were far away in Europe and Asi ...
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| 2. Bachelor Party (year: 1984) |
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Tom Hanks stars in this raunchy teen comedy from veteran screenwriters Pat Proft and Neil Israel, who had previously collaborated on the amusing sketc ...
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| 3. Band of Brothers (year: 2001) |
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Executive produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks for HBO, Band of Brothers is a ten-part miniseries based on the book Band of Brothers: E Company, ...
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| 4. Cars (year: 2006) |
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A pedal-to-the-metal race car determined to prove his worth on the tracks discovers that life isn't always about crossing the finish line first in Toy ...
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| 5. Cast Away (year: 2000) |
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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 N ...
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| 6. Charlie Wilson's War (year: 2007) |
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Produced by Tom Hanks, written by Aaron Sorkin, and directed by Mike Nichols, this adaptation of George Crile III's incendiary bestseller tells the re ...
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| 7. Dragnet (year: 1987) |
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Dan Aykroyd must have practiced for months to perfect his Jack Webb inflections for Dragnet. Screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz's directorial debut (also wri ...
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| 8. Forrest Gump (year: 1994) |
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"Stupid is as stupid does," says Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks in an Oscar-winning performance) as he discusses his relative level of in ...
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| 9. Philadelphia (year: 1993) |
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At the time of its release, Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia was the first big-budget Hollywood film to tackle the medical, political, and social issues ...
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| 10. Road to Perdition (year: 2002) |
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The acclaimed graphic novel from crime writer Max Allan Collins becomes this big budget Dreamworks drama from director Sam Mendes and screenwriter Dav ...
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| 11. Saving Private Ryan (year: 1998) |
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Steven Spielberg directed this powerful, realistic re-creation of WWII's D-day invasion and the immediate aftermath. The story opens with a prologue i ...
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| 12. Sleepless in Seattle (year: 1993) |
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Sleepless in Seattle, the sophomore directorial effort from Nora Ephron, is a light romantic comedy inspired by the 1957 film An Affair to Remember. T ...
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| 13. The Celluloid Closet (year: 1995) |
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Based on Vito Russo's groundbreaking 1981 work of film history, The Celluloid Closet gathers clips from dozens of mainstream Hollywood films to illust ...
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| 14. The Da Vinci Code (year: 2006) |
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Dan Brown's controversial best-selling novel about a powerful secret that's been kept under wraps for thousands of years comes to the screen in this s ...
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| 15. The Green Mile (year: 1999) |
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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, ...
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| 16. The Money Pit (year: 1986) |
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Adapting the themes of the 1948 film Mr. Blandings Builds his Dream House, this comedy stars Tom Hanks as Walter Fielding, who with his love Anna (She ...
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| 17. The Polar Express (year: 2004) |
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Directed by Robert Zemeckis and based on children's author Chris Van Allsburg's modern holiday classic of the same name, The Polar Express revolves ar ...
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| 18. The Simpsons Movie (year: 2007) |
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They've kept television viewers laughing for nearly 20 years, and now the most popular animated family on the small screen makes the leap into theater ...
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| 19. The Terminal (year: 2004) |
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Shot almost entirely on a two-and-a-half-story recreation of a full-size operating airport terminal, this romantic comedy from director Steven Spielbe ...
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| 20. Toy Story (year: 1995) |
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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 ...
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| 21. Toy Story 2 (year: 1999) |
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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. Th ...
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| 22. Volunteers (year: 1985) |
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Tom Hanks and John Candy were reunited for the first time since Splash in this period comedy about Peace Corps worker during the optimistic period of ...
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| 23. You've Got Mail (year: 1998) |
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Sleepless in Seattle director Nora Ephron originally made a name for herself as the writer of romantic comedies such as Heartburn and When Harry Met S ...
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