Word: hankses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Forrest Gump, a romantic epic starring Tom Hanks as a slow but sweet-souled Alabama boy who lucks into nearly every headline event of the past 40 years, is the summer sensation: a popular hit and an instant cultural touchstone. As the film's director, Robert Zemeckis (Back to the...
TOM HANKS
Cinema: Tom Hanks' ordinariness makes him extraordinary 58
In Splash, Hanks sits at a bar and pours out his lace-valentine heart: "I wanna meet a woman and I wanna fall in love and I wanna get married and I wanna have a kid and I wanna go see him play a tooth in the school play. It...
Other stars attract audiences by saving the world or stopping a runaway bus. A Hanks movie deals with more mundane imperatives: doing your job, staying alive, getting the girl. Simple things seem unattainable; when attained, they feel sublime.