Tom Hanks
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Greyhound (2020)
Directed by Aaron Schneider
influenced by Larry Crowne (2011), That Thing You Do! (1996)
While his performance and Blake Neely’s ( Riverdale , Batwoman ) atmospheric sonar ping-inspired score deserve plenty of plaudits, Hanks’ masterstroke, in pulling a rare double-duty as screenwriter (his first since 2011’s Larry Crowne ), is in keeping the enemy offscreen.
Hanks, who previously wrote or co-wrote (and directed) the originals That Thing You Do! and Larry Crowne, acknowledged at Empire, “In the early drafts of Greyhound I was able to go deep, ignoring budget and physics.
The last one he wrote and starred in was "Larry Crowne," which is a lesser entry in his filmography.
His presence has the effect of making a movie as adrift as this WWII thriller one that is still admirable and imminently watchable, with Hanks doing something he hasn’t done since Larry Crowne, which is writing a role for himself.
Y Hanks no sólo protagoniza: el grado de atracción fue tal que “Greyhound: En la mira del enemigo” es el primer guión escrito por el amado actor desde “Larry Crowne” en 2011.
Hanks didn’t drop the mic in the same way that Laughton did — he did make Larry Crowne after all — but it’s always interesting to see his output as a full creative.
In 1996's That Thing You Do!, Tom Hanks is a cynical music promoter who squeezes every dollar from a one-hit wonder.
Greg Kinnear ("As Good As It Gets") is decent as Kathleen's scholarly columnist boyfriend, while the wacky Steve Zahn ("That Thing You Do!") and David Chappelle ("Half Baked") provide the supplemental comic relief.
Yes, Vespas, the Italian motorised scooter immortalised by the poster for Roman Holiday and, to a lesser extent, Larry Crowne .
A lot of Gary’s misadventures are reportedly courtesy of Anderson’s friends, the producer Gary Goetzman (“Larry Crowne,” “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” “The Silence of the Lambs”), who, like Gary, was a child actor, and who, by this account, bounded into a very, very shaggy-dog 1970s Southern California at a young age.
Of course, much of that could be blamed on Shyamalan’s script, which farts out more dad jokes than Larry Crowne .