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  Review by Chris Burns ★★★ 11

  Bryan Cranston plays an astronaut in this film, just like Tom Hanks did in Apollo 13. Hanks plays a character called Mr. White, just like Cranston would later do in Breaking Bad.

  This prompted a Keanu style, "whoa!"

  Join me next time for another exciting edition of Things Chris Noticed.

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  Review by KYK ★★★★½ 3

  ugh the scene when they hear themselves on the radio is perfection. hate that ethan embry disappears into disneyland but otherwise just delightful...

  </3 adam schlesinger </3

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  Review by Sarah Jane 🔪 ★★★½

  I want to be in a band called "Captain Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters"

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  Review by kayla ★★★½ 1

  Okay the scene when they hear their song on the radio for the first time 😭😭

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★ 5

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  Gosh. So cute. Tom Hanks knocked it out of the park with this snappy rock 'n' roll comedy set in the aftermath of Beatlemania. Appreciated its loving glance towards Jazz. Great casting, especially Steve Zahn as Lenny. Charisma for days.

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  Review by Ben Empey ★★★½ 3

  that little gay boy who joins the marines is gonna die in vietnam

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  Review by Ella Kemp ★★★★½

  Ohhhhh I loved so so so many things about this! What a treat! 

  The perfect vanilla boy I’d never seen before and will never see again, a song so catchy I was thrilled when it played ~15 times and would have loved it to play 15 more, every smart Beatles joke that never poked too much fun at anyone, the perfect depiction of fame-induced euphoria (both for those consuming it *and* the ones experiencing it),  the cherry-red suits that look divine on absolutely everyone, the sunglasses, the hair, the way Liv Tyler communicates how good a kiss is by the movement of her eyebrows, that final conversation that had me YELPING with glee. More! Give me more movies like this one!

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  Review by fran hoepfner ★★★½ 3

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  even stranger to me now that Tom Everett Scott is the husband at the end of La La Land

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  Review by emilyrugburn ★★★★★

  Four things:

  1) I was born in Erie, PA where this is set

  2) I’ve lived in Orange, CA where this was filmed

  3) The Tom Hanks extended cut features 80% more Charlize Theron

  4) The Tom Hanks extended cut also (further) reveals that Tom Hanks’ character is gay you’re welcome

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  Review by ykg ★★★★

  Take a sad song, and make it faster

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  Review by Ayo Edebiri ★★★½

  Tom Hanks casting someone who looks exactly like young Tom Hanks to play the lead here makes this movie, essentially, Tom Hank’s Gemini Man—but the whole reason it works is because That Thing You Do is a truly good and catchy and perfect song!!! the ending is also incredible and forces us to realize that this is actually Lamarr’s movie. I am ok with that!

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  Review by karen h. 3

  adam schlesinger the goat