I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978)
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
If they miss The Beatles' first appearance in the U.S.A., they will hate themselves for the rest of their lives - so four young girls from New Jersey set off even though they don't have tickets for the show! The journey is full of surprises and misfortunes but the young ladies are determined to reach their idols.
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Much as Robert Zemeckis toyed with Beatlemania in "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" a generation ago, the wobbly new comedy "Fanboys," set in 1998, salutes Yoda worship and the fine line between ardor and breaking and entering.
He basically lived out the real-life version of Robert Zemeckis' "I Wanna Hold Your Hand," traveling to New York City with his friends to try to score tickets to "The Ed Sullivan Show" for the Beatles' historic first appearance.
Aboard the train, the Polar Express, are a number of other nameless children passengers -- a feisty Hero Girl (Voiced by Nona Gaye), a nerdy Know-it-All (Eddie Deezen, from Zemeckis' "I Wanna Hold Your Hand") and a wrong-side-of-the-tracks Lonely Boy.
Once a promising filmmaker, Zemeckis worked his way from small comedies like I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) and Used Cars (1980) to superbly crafted Hollywood entertainments like Romancing the Stone (1984), Back to the Future (1985) and the amazingly brilliant Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) -- a film worthy of Spielberg himself.
Second Glance: The Pre-‘Allied’ Freedom of ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’…
Starting off with writing 1978’s teen pic “I Wanna Hold Your Hand,” he became a Spielberg protege, directing a number of big blockbusters, including one of the most beloved of all time, “Back To The Future.”
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The director of the nostalgia-puncturing I Wanna Hold Your Hand and the fully anti-nostalgic satire on '50s mores Back to the Future was a peculiar choice for a film that was at least sometimes trying to affectionately recap midcentury American history, though it's possible that at some point, Forrest Gump was intended to be the same kind of piss-take.