I've admired Tom Hanks for a long time, and having watched his movies over the past few decades, he seems to have held on to what he believes in and not in any way sold out, despite all the other movie genres he might have chosen.
From having a love affair with a Mermaid, as he did with Daryl Hannah in 'Splash, to being the Commander of Apollo 13, Hanks has shown his liking of roles that show that he is multi talented, whether it be light hearted 'Big' or poignant as in 'Forrest Gump and heroic as he was in 'Saving Private Ryan, his star is still in an upward climb.
His role as Andrew Beckett in 'Philadelphia, where he played an AIDS sufferer unjustly fired from the legal firm where he worked, only to find the Lawyer representing him in his law suit against his former employers is Homophobic.
In recent times Hank's has played in movies that have interested me, and they were ' Extremely Loud, Incredibly Close', the 2011 film dealing with the story of a man who is killed in one of the towers in the World Trade Centre in 9/11.
Then in 2013, he played Captain Richard Phillips, in the titular role of USS Alabama, hijacked off the coast of Somalia.
And in his most recent film, TH, played Walt Disney in 'Saving Mr Banks' in 1964, when he was having negotiations, with P.T Travers, the author of the 'Mary Poppins' series books, with the plan to make a movie, and the problems that arose,
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