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Starring
Tom Hanks, Tom Everett Scott, Liv Tyler

Director
Tom Hanks

Year
1996

Genre
Comedy

Synopsis
This is where is it all started for some of the decade's brightest stars, including Oscar-winner Charlize Theron, Giovani Ribisi and Steve Zahn, in Tom Hanks' upbeat comedy about a 1960s garage band and its brief brush with fame.

1960s aficionados will delight in Hanks attention for detail - if they can remember - from the band's switch from Danelectros to Fenders as the money rolls in, to retro-rocker Chris Isaak's cameo role and the theme of edgily exploited innocence, personified by creepy manager Hanks whose directorial debut suggests anything but a one-hit wonder.

Oscar nominee for Best Music, Original Song by Adam Schlesinger for the song "That Thing You Do!".

TRIVIA:
The four actors playing The Wonders rehearsed as a band for eight weeks to get the feel of performing; exterior shots for Erie, Pennsylvania, the hometown of the band, were actually filmed in Orange, California; the part of Troy Chesterfield is played by Peter Scolari, Tom Hanks' costar in his old sitcom "Bosom Buddies" (1980); The waitress character played by Rita Wilson is named Marguerite. Wilson's birth name is Marguerita Ibrahimoff; the bass player played by Ethan Embry is never explicitly named. All references to him in the film are as, "the bass player", however in the scene where the director is changing shots of the Wonders for their television debut his name is on a clipboard.

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