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That Thing You Do! is a 1996 American musical comedy-drama film written and directed by Tom Hanks, in his feature writing and directorial debut.
Oct 1, 2021 · Just a few months removed from John F. Kennedy’s assassination, the world was a “dark, gray, and lonely place,” Hanks remembers, but he found an escape in the British band’s music as it ...
- Jake Kring-Schreifels
- TOM HANKS WROTE THE SCRIPT WHILE PROMOTING FORREST GUMP AND GETTING SICK OF TALKING ABOUT HIMSELF. Hanks wanted to achieve “creative sanity” during the endless promotion.
- THE TITLE SONG WAS WRITTEN BY THE BASS PLAYER OF FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE. At the time, Adam Schlesinger was in the band Ivy and was just starting to form Fountains of Wayne when he entered Hanks and the producers’ contest to write a “faux-Beatles” tune called “That Thing You Do.”
- MIKE VIOLA WAS UPSET OVER THE LACK OF CREDIT GIVEN FOR SINGING THE SONG. The Candy Butchers singer didn’t appreciate being listed after the long cast and production credits—including one horse—as simply supplying “Additional Vocals.”
- TOM EVERETT SCOTT ALMOST DIDN’T GET THE PART BECAUSE HE LOOKED TOO MUCH LIKE HANKS. Hanks changed his mind and gave the young lookalike his first film role after Hanks’s wife, Rita Wilson, said Everett Scott was cute.
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That Thing You Do!: Directed by Tom Hanks. With Tom Everett Scott, Liv Tyler, Johnathon Schaech, Steve Zahn. 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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That Thing You Do Quick Reference Set in the early 60s, this story of the Wonders, a four-piece beat group from a small town in Pennsylvania, was written and directed by Tom Hanks.
