#SKITCH THAT THING YOU DO MOVIE#
Additionally, on the soundtrack CD, there are songs by fictional stars The Vicksburgs, The Heardsmen, and Del Paxton, all of whom were mentioned in the movie but never actually shown performing.Defictionalization: Tom Hanks named his production company Playtone after the fictional "Play-Tone Records" in the film.White gives Guy a pair when he signs the band, and renames him 'Shades' in the process. and Guy develops a not-unreciprocated interest in Jimmy's girlfriend Faye Dolan ( Liv Tyler). until they start trying to cope with success. With their record zooming up the charts, hordes of screaming fans greeting them at every stop on tour and a gig on The Hollywood Television Showcase, the sky's the limit for the newly renamed Wonders. White (Tom Hanks), a record company executive who thinks he can take them to the top - but only if they agree to change their name. Eventually this attracts the attention of a local talent scout, who in turn introduces them to Mr. The new version takes off, earning them a gig at "that Italian place down by the airport" and inspiring them to make a recording to sell at the door. until they see the crowds dancing in the aisles. Auteur Jimmy and easy-going Lenny are both horrified. The night of the comp, however, Guy leads them off at a much faster tempo than they'd rehearsed, giving them no choice but to transform it into a snappy pop number. Naming themselves the 'One-ders' (as in Wonders) on the sound-for-the-time logic that a Punny Name worked for The Beatles, the band intends to perform a slow ballad written by Jimmy and Lenny called "That Thing You Do". Reluctant appliance salesman / fervent amateur jazz drummer Guy "Skitch" Patterson (Tom Everett Scott) is drafted into a garage band formed by friends Jimmy Mattingly (Johnathon Schaech) and Lenny Haise (Steve Zahn), as a one-time favour - their original drummer broke his arm the day before the big local talent competition.
It's 1964 in Erie, PA, not long after The British Invasion. That's what I think anyway.1996 comedy movie written and directed by Tom Hanks, who also appears in a starring role.
well, now, Faye is special, isn't she? And you are the smart one. You know, Horace was right about you, Guy you are the smart one. You want to hang around for a while? Ok by me, but you're out of the hotel this afternoon. My first time in a real recording studio. Well, maybe for you, but I was in a band, we still have a hit record. This delightful movie would make a great double-bill with Allison Anders's wonderful Grace of My Heart. Tom Hanks's debut as a writer and director is a lively, affectionate account of the shooting-star career of a forgotten (fictional) '60s pop-rock band called The Wonders-as in "one-hit wonders." Hanks plays the manager of the group, which includes drummer Guy "Sticks" Patterson (Tom Everett Scott) who works the floor at his parents' appliance store in Erie, Pennsylvania Jimmy (Johnathon Schaech), the talented and temperamental lead singer and songwriter Lenny (Steve Zahn), the goofy guitarist and Ethan Embry as a geeky little fellow identified in the cast list only as "The Bass Player." The movie traces their meteoric rise and fall, from cutting their first record, to going on tour with a Phil Spector/Motown-type revue, to the internal tensions that lead to the band's disintegration, which comes when they fail to follow up their smash hit single, "That Thing You Do!" And that song, by the way, is so catchy it would definitely have been a hit in 1964-and deserves to be one today.
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