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(0)Tom Hanks
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"UNCOMMON TYPE contains seventeen stories, each in some way involving a different typewriter (Hanks is an avid collector of vintage typewriters and owns over one hundred of them). The stories feature an immigrant arriving in New York City after his family and life have been torn apart by his country's civil war; a man who bowls a perfect game (and then another, and another), becoming ESPN's newest celebrity; an eccentric billionaire and his faithful...
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Un amable inmigrante del este de Europa llega a Nueva York tras ver destruida su vida y su familia a causa de la guerra civil de su país. Un hombre que ama los bolos juega una partida perfecta… y luego otra, y otra, y muchas más seguidas, hasta que acaba convertido en la nueva celebridad del canal de deportes ESPN, y entonces debe decidir si la fama y la perfección combinadas han arruinado lo que más ama en el mundo. Un excéntrico millonario...
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2023.
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Part One of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier meets his talented five-year-old nephew. Cut to 1970: the nephew, now drawing underground comic books, reconnects with his uncle and draws a comic book with his uncle as a World War II fighting hero. Cut to the present day: a commercially successful director discovers the 1970 comic book and decides to turn it into a contemporary superhero movie. Cue the cast: we meet the film's extremely...
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c2008
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Academy Award winners Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman star in this compelling and witty film from Oscar-winning director Mike Nichols and Primetime Emmy-winning writer Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing). Based on the outrageous true story, Charlie Wilson's War shows how one congressman who loved a good time, one Houston socialite who loved a good cause and one renegade CIA agent who loved a good fight conspired to bring about the largest...
12) You've got mail
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c1999
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Rival book dealers unwittingly fall anonymously head over heels in love via the Internet.
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2019.
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Woody has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that's Andy or Bonnie. But when Bonnie adds a reluctant new toy called 'Forky' to her room, a road trip adventure alongside old and new friends will show Woody how big the world can be for a toy.
15) Band of brothers
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c2002
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Follows the 101 Airborne as it drops into Normandy on D-Day and fights its way through Europe until the end World War II.
16) Sully
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2016.
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After landing US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger faces criticism during the investigation into the crash while being hailed as a hero by the media.
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2020.
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Tom Hanks portrays Mister Rogers in a timely story of kindness triumphing over cynicism, based on the true story of a real-life friendship between Fred Rogers and journalist Tom Junod. After a jaded magazine writer is assigned a profile of Fred Rogers, he overcomes his skepticism, learning about kindness, love, and forgiveness from America's most beloved neighbor.