Tom Hanks

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"From the Academy Award-winning actor and best-selling author: his debut novel. The story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film ... and the humble comic book that inspired it. PART ONE of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew, leaves an indelible impression, and then disappears for 23 years. Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing...

2) Uncommon type: some stories

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"Uncommon type contains seventeen stories, each in some way involving a different typewriter (Hanks is an avid collector of vintage typewriters and owns over one hundred of them). The stories feature an immigrant arriving in New York City after his family and life have been torn apart by his country's civil war; a man who bowls a perfect game (and then another, and another), becoming ESPN's newest celebrity; an eccentric billionaire and his faithful...

3) Larry Crowne

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When he's downsized from his job, Larry Crowne (Tom Hanks) decides to reinvent himself by enrolling in college, where he not only forms some unexpected bonds with fellow students, but also catches the eye of his professor, Mercedes Tainot (Julia Roberts). The simple guy who has every reason to think his life has stalled will come to learn an unexpected lesson: when you think everything worth having has passed you by, you just might discover your reason...

4) Mazes and Monsters

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Robbie and his four college classmates decide to move the board game into the local legendary cavern.

5) The Making of Another Motion Picture

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From the legendary winning actor and best-selling author: a novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film ... and the humble comic books that inspired it. Funny, touching, and wonderfully thought-provoking, while also capturing the changes in America and American culture since World War II. Part One of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old...

6) Elvis

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"The life of American music icon Elvis Presley, from his childhood to becoming a rock and movie star in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker."--www.imdb.com.

7) Captain Phillips

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"The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years"--www.imdb.com.

8) Sleepless in Seattle

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A recent widower in Seattle and a reporter in Baltimore are fated for each other and it takes the man's son and a radio talk show to set events in motion for the couple to meet.

9) Saving Mr. Banks

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"Author P.L. Travers reflects on her childhood after reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen"--from www.imdb.com.

10) News of the world

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"A Civil War veteran agrees to deliver a girl, taken by the Kiowa people years ago, to her aunt and uncle, against her will. They travel hundreds of miles and face grave dangers as they search for a place that either can call home"--www.imdb.com.

11) That thing you do!

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A rock music group is catapulted into fame almost overnight when their signature song hits the top of the chart. Includes the original theatrical release plus the extended cut.

12) Toy story 4

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"When a new toy called "Forky" joins Woody and the gang, a road trip alongside old and new friends reveals how big the world can be for a toy"--From www.imdb.com.

13) Toy story of terror!

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The Toy story gang head out on a roadtrip but when one of them disappears at a roadside motel, they must solve the mystery before they all suffer the same fate.

14) Bridge of spies

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"During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers"--from www.imdb.com.

15) Killing Lincoln

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A narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

16) A hologram for the king: Un hologramme pour le roi

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"A failed American sales rep looks to recoup his losses by traveling to Saudi Arabia and selling his company's product to a wealthy monarch."--www.imdb.com.

17) Toy story of terror!

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The Toy story gang head out on a road trip but when one of them disappears at a roadside motel, they must solve the mystery before they all suffer the same fate.

18) The great Buck Howard

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Buck Howard is a mentalist who used to be famous and is now trying to make a comeback.

19) Ithaca

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When his older brother leaves to fight in the Second World War, fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley takes on a job as a bicycle telegraph messenger to provide for his widowed mother, his older sister and his younger brother. Homer delivers messages of love, hope, pain and death to the good people of Ithaca, but soon must grapple with a message that will change him forever. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan's 1943 novel The Human...

20) Inferno

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