That Thing You Do! (1996 Audience Choice)

Awesome Movie Year

Jul 15, 2020•53 min•Season 4Ep. 13

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Episode description

In the finale of our season on the awesome movie year of 1996, we’re talking about this season’s audience choice pick, Tom Hanks’ That Thing You Do! Written and directed by Tom Hanks and starring Tom Everett Scott, Liv Tyler, Johnathon Schaech, Steve Zahn, Ethan Embry and Tom Hanks, That Thing You Do! beat out Billy Bob Thornton’s Sling Blade and Steve Buscemi’s Trees Lounge in our audience choice poll of 1996 directorial debuts by actors.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/that-thing-you-do-1996), Duane Byrge in TheHollywood Reporter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/thing-you-do-1996-review-934918), and Janet Maslin in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/04/movies/a-band-s-beatle-ish-rise-in-hanks-s-directing-debut.html).

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