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Tom Hanks: 25 Most Memorable Roles

See the Oscar winner go from Bosom Buddy to Forrest Gump to Charlie Wilson
By Adrienne Day Updated December 19, 2007 at 10:00 PM EST
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TOM HANKS & PETER SCOLARI IN BOSOM BUDDIES (1980)

Tom Hanks, Peter Scolari, ... | Know what Hanks was doing before he became the revered Academy Award-winning actor he is today? He was dragging around on TV in this cult…
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Know what Hanks was doing before he became the revered Academy Award-winning actor he is today? He was dragging around on TV in this cult buddy comedy that found him and Scolari as two pals who, after being kicked out of their apartment building, dressed as ladies so they could stay in an all-girls boarding house.

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Tom Hanks, The Man With One Red Shoe
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Tom Hanks, The Money Pit
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THE BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES (1990)

The Bonfire of the Vanities, Melanie Griffith, ... | BOX OFFICE BOMB Bonfire of the Vanities : Great book! Terrible, terrible movie.
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The Tom Wolfe novel was an intelligent, potent character study of the Wall Street types, racism, and social hierarchy of New York City in the '80s. So how do you whittle down 500-plus pages of a book for the big screen? You don't. The Brian De Palma-directed movie, costarring Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, John Hancock, and Saul Rubinek as the four interweaving characters, lacked Wolfe's complexity and introspection.—Youyoung Lee

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Sleepless in Seattle, Meg Ryan, ... | Think of these acts as fill-in-the-blank responses to the sentence: ''If we're meant to be together...'' EXAMPLE: Borrowing from An Affair to Remember , Sleepless…
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Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks | It wasn't until director Robert Zemeckis plopped Tom Hanks next to President John F. Kennedy that the idea of complex CG effects playing a useful…
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Tom Hanks, Cast Away

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Tom Hanks, Catch Me if You Can

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The Da Vinci Code (2006)

Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, ... | Hate on Ron Howard's adaptation of Dan Brown's runaway best-seller all you want, but you can't deny that Paul Bettany makes one scary albino. Even…

Hate on Ron Howard's adaptation of Dan Brown's runaway best-seller all you want, but you can't deny that Paul Bettany makes one scary albino. Even we won't bother trying to defend Tom Hanks' hair, though.

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