Tom Hanks

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q2263: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Elvis, which ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics credits them on.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: That Thing You Do!. Count them as writer (1 film), actor (31 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Licorice Pizza (2021): 1 line

  1. people (people) · through That Thing You Do!, which they directed: That Thing You Do! ⇒ Licorice Pizza (the host's read). Gary Goetzman was an inspiration for Licorice Pizza and will come up on the show.
    “he was an inspiration for the film Licorice Pizza”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:44:45 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (1) everyone in directing

Acting (55) everyone in acting

Other (14) everyone in other

Writing (1) everyone in writing

What was said about them, by kind

career (7)

  1. career (career): John Travolta → Tom Hanks. In the late 90s Travolta was the backup choice to Hanks for many roles.
    “he was kind of the backup choice to Hanks for a lot of different roles.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Domestic Disturbance’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:32:56 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Tom Hanks → A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Hanks as Mr. Rogers works because both are iconic nice men nobody knows.
    “Tom Hanks is the same character in our culture as Mr. Rogers is in people who have Mr. Rogers in their culture.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:17:44 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Tom Hanks → Road to Perdition. Perdition plays the murderer-gangster against Hanks's innate warmth.
    “something like, um, a road to perdition, which is sort of like the most villainous character.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:18:28 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Tom Hanks → The Circle. Hanks plays a very bad Mark Zuckerberg type in a poor movie.
    “He plays the Mark Zuckerberg character in the circle, a very bad guy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:19:42 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Tom Hanks → The Ladykillers. The speakers name The Ladykillers as the last time he played a pure villain.
    “He's also, of course, the villain, the Lady Coast.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:20:00 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Tom Hanks → Turner & Hooch. Turner & Hooch is offered as Hanks's weird rom-com.
    “Yeah, Turner on Hooch. That's his weird rom-com.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:22:45 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): Tom Hanks → Nora Ephron. Hanks did a Broadway play partly as tribute to the dying Ephron.
    “I think he almost pointedly did that play because he knew she was dying.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:41:28 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

contrast (4)

  1. contrast (contrast): Harrison Ford → Tom Hanks. Ford has a higher Q rating than even Tom Hanks.
    “a higher Q rating than even like a Tom Hanks genuinely.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:36:18 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Tom Hanks → A League of Their Own. Hanks is too lovable and soft; even in A League of Their Own as the mean guy he stays lovable.
    “like in the league of their own, he's still a lovable guy.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:17:22 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Gene Hackman → Tom Hanks. Hanks in Asteroid City is drained of native charisma, while Hackman won't allow that.
    “I mean, think of Tom Hanks in Asteroid City.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 12 - 'The Royal Tenenbaums’ · 0:15:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. contrast (contrast): Tom Hanks → The Bonfire of the Vanities. In Bonfire he cannot be unsavory because his likability shows through; here the charm works against Ryan's character.
    “even when he's playing his most unsavory, there's still something kind of charming and likable about Tom Hanks, and he cannot dim.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:15:31 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Tom Hanks → Dave Chappelle. Hanks creates friend chemistry with nearly any actor he works with.
    “I also got a sense that Tom Hanks is very good at creating friend chemistry with almost any person he's ever worked with on film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 0:52:52 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

people (7)

  1. people (people): Volunteers → Tom Hanks. Volunteers pairs Hanks with John Candy; Hanks met Rita Wilson around then.
    “He'd been in a movie with Hanks the year before.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Flesh+Blood · 1:31:53 · David Sims (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Tom Hanks → Meg Ryan. A romantic pair who made three movies together is the closest modern analog to Douglas and Turner, counting Joe Versus the Volcano.
    “No, they did 3 because Joe and the volcano, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:37:17 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. people (casting): Catch Me If You Can → Tom Hanks. The daddy issues pay off in scenes with Hanks, 'America's dad', and Christopher Walken.
    “a lot more daddy issue, Christopher Walken stuff, which, you know, pays off in the scenes with Tom Hanks, America's dad.”
    The Big Picture · The 25 Best Movies of the Century: No. 11 - 'The Wolf of Wall Street’ · 0:36:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. people (people): Tom Hanks → Saving Private Ryan. Hanks was Forrest Gump and the captain in Ryan.
    “it stars Tom Hanks as a middle-aged army captain, sent to find a young paratrooper behind enemy lines.”
    The Big Picture · 8. I Love America | Do We Get to Win This Time? · 0:58:39 · Brian Raftery (0.90 sure it was them)
  5. people (people): Tom Hanks → Big. Hanks is the lord of the feel-good field.
    “He is really truly the lord of the feel-good fan.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:40:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. people (people): Tom Hanks → That Thing You Do!. Hanks wrote, directed and supporting-acts in That Thing You Do!
    “written and directed by Tom Hanks, and he plays a supporting role”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:43:37 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. people (people): Tom Hanks → Jimmy Stewart. Spielberg makes Hanks his everyman, a Jimmy Stewart.
    “Yeah, he says Jimmy Stewart.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 1:01:58 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

what-if (18)

  1. what-if (what-if): Friday the 13th → Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks as Ned would make the movie 100 times better.
    “Obviously, Tom Hanks is Ned.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:24:28 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (casting what-if): Tom Hanks → Forrest Gump. Hanks as Ricky Bobby would play like Forrest Gump adjacent, over-the-top Southern American.
    “Like, like Forrest Gump adjacent.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Talladega Nights' With Craig Horlbeck, Danny Heifetz, and Danny Kelly · 1:47:23 · Danny Heifetz (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (what-if): Tom Hanks → Eyes Wide Shut. Hanks in Eyes Wide Shut would be a tough one.
    “What about Hanks and Eyes wide shut?”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:25:40 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. what-if (what-if): Tom Hanks → Rain Man. Hanks as Charlie Babbitt in Rain Man; the Hanks bad-boy era of Punchline and Bachelor Party.
    “So Hanks is Charlie Babbitt.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:26:01 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. what-if (what-if): Dennis Hopper → Tom Hanks. For the dad, a trusted face like Hanks or Hopper would make the storyline land emotionally.
    “like a Hanks or like a hopper, somebody that we've trusted before.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 0:59:09 · Glen Powell (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. what-if (what-if): The Truman Show → Tom Hanks. Powell's hot take: Hanks as an everyman realizing he represents something would make a different, more subtle movie.
    “My hot take is I do think this movie could have potentially been really good with Tom Hanks.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 1:03:45 · Glen Powell (0.90 sure it was them)
  7. what-if (casting what-if): Griffin Dunn → Tom Hanks. Bill offers 1985 Tom Hanks, fresh off Splash, as a better lead for the comic timing and awkward horniness.
    “I think this would have been a really good Tom Hanks movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 1:20:36 · Bill Simmons (0.65 sure it was them)
  8. what-if (what-if): Tom Hanks → Working Girl. For Jack Trainor it has to be Hanks; Cruise was too powerful in the 80s.
    “The height thing that you mentioned earlier, but cruise is just too powerful in 80s.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 1:43:37 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. what-if (what-if): Tom Hanks → Friday Night Lights (2004 film). Producer Craig breaks the tie: Hanks can pull off the southern personality; Cruise is too small.
    “The answer is Tom Hanks.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:30:56 · Craig Horlbeck (0.80 sure it was them)
  10. what-if (what-if): Tom Hanks → Pulp Fiction. Hanks suggested as Vincent; rejected as having no darkness.
    “There's no darkness to Hanks.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 2:09:59 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  11. what-if (what-if): Bill Paxton → Tom Hanks. Hanks read for Bill, passed, and suggested Paxton; Hanks even had wardrobe ready, so Paxton got the role via a big star.
    “Tom Hanks read for the part of Bill.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:16:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  12. what-if (what-if): Twister → Tom Hanks. Hanks is the right lead over Cruise, who is too good-looking; the group argues Hanks vs Cruise vs Denzel.
    “This is this is a perfect Hanks movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:32:24 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  13. what-if (what-if): Tom Hanks → The War of the Roses. Hanks versus Cruise as the lead; Hanks cannot turn off lovability, but one speaker thinks he is right.
    “I actually think this is the kind of movie Tom Hanks needed to make and tried to make a couple times in the 80s.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The War of the Roses’ With Bill Simmons, Mallory Rubin, and Amanda Dobbins · 1:16:49 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  14. what-if (what-if): Kevin Kline → Tom Hanks. Kline could have had a Tom Hanks type career.
    “He could have been Tom Hanks.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Big Chill’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:00:02 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  15. what-if (what-if): Tom Hanks → Kevin Spacey. Simmons argues Hanks in the Spacey role would make the audience root for a man who isn't good.
    “if that's Hanks, you're processing the movie a little bit differently”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 1:09:02 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  16. what-if (what-if): Tom Hanks → Kevin Spacey. Koppelman says Hanks does not play sleaze and could not sell the drifting-away line at the end.
    “He doesn't play sleaze.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Margin Call’ With Bill Simmons, Ryen Russillo, and Brian Koppelman · 1:10:32 · Brian Koppelman (0.85 sure it was them)
  17. what-if (casting what-if): Kurt Russell → Tom Hanks. Hanks was too nice and not old enough to play Herb Brooks.
    “Hanks is almost too nice.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Miracle’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:16:31 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  18. what-if (career what-if): Matthew Broderick → Tom Hanks. Hanks had the ideal version of the adult career Broderick might have had, rom-coms and Punchline-type roles.
    “I feel like Tom Hanks had the ideal version of Matthew Broderick's adult career.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:08:49 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Tom Hanks: Craig breaks the Cruise/Hanks tie and the running tally goes to 21-16, Hanks.
    “So if Hanks wins, it's 21 to 16, Hanks.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday Night Lights’ With Bill Simmons and Mallory Rubin · 1:31:36 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Tom Hanks: Hanks read for Bill Harding, got wardrobe, then passed and recommended Paxton.
    “Tom Hanks read for the part of Bill.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:16:53 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Tom Hanks: Hanks's Colonel Parker accent is compared to Goldmember; separately Amanda notes this is the film where he contracted COVID.
    “he's doing basically the gold member accent”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 0:18:05 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Tom Hanks: If Beautiful Day misses the Oscars, either Tom Hanks is over or it's terrible.
    “Tom Hanks is over?”
    The Big Picture · The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview · 0:18:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.55 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Tom Hanks: Hanks's PA announcement at Zabar's, quoted by Ephron.
    “ladies and gentlemen, shoppers at Zabars, want to announce that Meg Ryan is appetizing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:13:07 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Tom Hanks: Hanks called the Cafe Lalo scene, a 12-page, four-night shoot, the hardest of his career.
    “It was a 4 night shoot.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:39:22 · Griffin Newman (0.65 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Tom Hanks: Hanks's own line on the Lalo scene.
    “I think it is the most sophisticated scene I have ever seen in a movie that is not supposed to be viewed as sophisticated.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:40:13 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Tom Hanks: The script supervisor fixed Hanks's block on the Lalo scene: he stays because he is trying to build the courage to say it is him.
    “Your motivation, this scene, is you think if you stay longer, you'll finally build the courage to say it.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:42:15 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)