A local Pennsylvania band scores a one hit wonder in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as they can, with lots of help from its manager.
Writer/Director: Tom Hanks
Stars: Tom Hanks, Liv Tyler, Charlize Theron, Tom Everett Scott.
Toni Basil ... choreographer
Carol Hatchett ... assistant choreographer
Watched extended edition online, good print.
~30 songs in the Soundtracks, without performers. The title track & 2 others were Written by Adam Schlesinger. Tom Hanks has (co-)writing credit on 10.
Enjoyable film. Finally a record promoter/manager who's rather nice (TH).
So far TH has directed (also co-wrote & starred) only 1 other film: Larry Crowne (2011). But he has lots of producer credits in both tv & film.
Rated 6.9 by 55.8k IMDb voters.
Fox & more, dir. Hanks; 6
