Tom Hanks
Author
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
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...
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
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...
10) You've got mail
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Rival book dealers unwittingly fall anonymously head over heels in love via the Internet.
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
1. Angels & Demons: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon works with a nuclear physicist to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican during one of the significant events within the church. -- 2. The Da Vinci code: A murder inside the Louvre, and clues in Da Vinci paintings, lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years, which could shake the foundations of Christianity.
13) Band of brothers
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Follows the 101 Airborne as it drops into Normandy on D-Day and fights its way through Europe until the end World War II.
15) Sully
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
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.
17) Apollo 13
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
True story of how three astronauts, stranded 205,000 miles above the earth, fight a battle to survive while Mission Control works against time to bring them home.
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
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.
20) The green mile
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
On the death-row cellblock at Cold Mountain Penitentiary miracles have come to life through a gentle giant who has supernatural powers that bring a senses of spirit and humanity to the guards and other inmates.