Word: sleepless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hanks, 38 this week, is the actor who takes dangerous themes or recycled plots and, with his craft and decency, makes them esteemed hits. The rare flops (Punchline, The Bonfire of the Vanities) don't stick to him,and his past three films (A League of Their Own, Sleepless in Seattle, Philadelphia) have earned $310 million at the domestic box office. Now Hollywood routinely assigns its Missions Impossible to Captain Nice...
...literally grows up overnight (Big). You're a detective whose top informant is a slobbery dog (Turner & Hooch). You're the manager of a baseball team, and your players are all girls (A League of Their Own). Or your girlfriend is a fish (Splash). Your wife has died (Sleepless in Seattle). You think you're dying (Joe Versus the Volcano). You are dying (Philadelphia). Whether the dilemma is fantastic or tragic, Hanks gives it an apt, gentle heft...
...allowed to shoot may feel disorienting, but in a fun way. The cinematography of Sven Nykvist (of Ingmar Bergman fame) is competent, but it has none of the passion of his most recent work, the lyrical "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" and the truly horrible (but well-filmed) "Sleepless in Seattle...
...Mark Shultz '94 said he was excited to be done, but he said 48 sleepless hours put a bit of a damper on the festivity of the occasion...
...Wink and a Smile, "Sleepless in Seattle"--Cheesy in Los Angeles...