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Saw this as a sneak preview with my wife. Very fun movie. Well done by Hanks, who even had a hand in writing some of the songs for the soundtrack. This movie was his baby.
From IMDB: Recounts a fable of a pop rock band immediately after the Beatles took America by storm in early 1964. Jazz aficionado Guy Patterson, unhappily toiling in the family appliance store, is recruited into the band the Oneders (later renamed the Wonders) after regular drummer Chad breaks his arm. After Guy injects a Merseybeat rhythm into lead singer Jimmy's ballad, the song's undeniable pop power flings the Wonders into a brief whirlwind of success, telling the tale of many American bands who attempted to grab the brass ring of rock and roll in the wake of the British Invasion.
Written and directed by Tom Hanks.
Featuring: Tom Everett Scott, Liv Tyler, Johnathon Schaech, Steve Zahn, Ethan Embry, Tom Hanks, Charlize Theron, and Giovanni Ribisi.
Miscellaneous: Fountains of Wayne is the band who penned the title song in response to a contest being held by the studio. Their song won, thus it was used in the movie and ultimately launched their career.
Homeland Security Director (and Erie native) Tom Ridge, then the governor of Pennsylvania, visited the set during production and presented Tom Hanks with a Zippo lighter that was engraved with the film's logo (Hanks collects Zippos, which are manufactured in Pennsylvania.)
Tom Hanks named his production company Play-Tone after the fictional record label in the movie.
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Originally posted by Ryanwb Liv Tyler was babe-a-licious in this movie....
If she were President, she'd be Babraham Lincoln
Ex-squeeze me?
Baking powder?
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I did enjoy this movie - Steve Zahn, Giovanni Ribisi, Ethan Embry AND Tom ?
Yowza!
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Kinda bubblegum and a little cheezy but you can see the work that TH put into this. Very good cast (mmmm LIV) good music and well executed script and performances.
Originally posted by arthurracoon How does the song go?
Something like...this:
You, doing that thing you do
Breakin' my heart into a million pieces
Like you always do
And you, don't mean to be cruel
You never even knew about the heartache
I've been going through
And I try and try to forget you girl
But it's just so hard to do
Every time you do that thing you do
I, know all the games you play
And I'm gonna find a way to let you know that
You'll be mine someday
Cuz we, could be happy can't you see
If you'd only let me be the one to hold you
And keep you here with me
Cuz I try and try to forget you girl
But it's just so hard to do
Every time you do that thing you do
I don't ask a lot (I don't ask a lot)
But I know one thing for sure (Know one thing for sure)
It's the love that I haven't got girl
And I just can't take it anymore
Waaaaaaaaaa!
Cuz we, could be happy can't you see
If you'd only let me be the one to hold you
And keep you here with me
Cuz it hurts me so just to see you go
Around with someone new
And if I know you you're doing that thing
Every day just doing that thing
I can't take you doing that thing you do
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I can see BIM bopping to that as he waits patiently for the Cards game to start.
Or maybe jamming to it on his way to the Cards game.
Or maybe even rocking out to it in the shower.
Not like I think of BIM in the shower or anything.
I mean...
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