That Thing You Do
Pennsylvania band the 'Oneders' become a sensation after their drummer breaks his arm, and is replaced by jazz enthusiast, Guy Patterson, who injects something a bit different into their music.
7 August 1975, Benoni, Transvaal, South Africa
30 October 1957, San Francisco, California, USA
24 November 1977, Sacramento, California, USA
17 December 1974, Los Angeles, California, USA
April 17, 2016
It's absolutely impossible not to smile when "The Wonders" hear their song on the radio for the first time.
March 29, 2013
Tom Hanks directorial effort is a decent film overall, but nothing that would ever inspire to re-visit again and again with fondness.
December 17, 2007
First-time writer/director Tom Hanks stays about a half-beat ahead of the cliches with rim shots of boyish enthusiasm and deft comedy. The movie's also buoyed by the title song, whose Beatles sound is infectious enough to merit a real hit.
July 08, 2010
A movie as catchy and likable as the title song.
June 24, 2006
Sweet nothing, then, but what would you expect of a rock movie devoted to the drummer?
December 17, 2007
Though Hanks keeps the satirical and critical aspects of this look at show biz fairly light, there's a lot of conviction and savvy behind the steadiness of his gaze.
May 20, 2003
Mr. Hanks's debut feature, written and directed with delightful good cheer, is rock-and-roll nostalgia presented as pure fizz.
January 03, 2007
A sweet, likeable tale of the quick rise to fame and then demise of a small town band. Set in 1964, Hanks' film offers a sanitized, Gump-ish look at a mythical period when boys were boys and girls were girls, with no references to the sex-drug subculture
March 30, 2016
Call it a sanitized version of The Commitments.
May 10, 2009
Whereas Dances With Wolves was an epic cultural tract, That Thing You Do! is a piece of entertaining bubblegum which, like its director, making his feature directorial debut, is high on charm and style.
October 04, 2016
The chief wonder of this rock 'n' roll cast is Tom Everett Scott, whose easy charisma, dreamy smile and undersurface intelligence should shoot him up the acting charts like a bullet.
December 18, 2010
Sweet, sleepy take on flash-in-the-pan '60s band.
