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Plot: Tom Hanks wanted to prove his dramatic talent in the mid-1980s, and Nothing in Common gave him a ripe opportunity. Playing an emotionally immature Chicago advertising executive, Hanks offers a ...( read more read more... )prototype of his later, better role in Big--the joking man-child with seemingly limitless reserves of energetic humor, perfectly suited to director Garry Marshall's trademark blend of featherweight comedy and sentiment. The movie wanders aimlessly before settling into its dramatic groove, involving Hanks caring for his aging, diabetic father (Jackie Gleason, well cast in his final screen role) after his mother (Eva Marie Saint) files for divorce and strikes out on her own. Like Marshall's Pretty Woman, the movie hits several grace notes and finds unexpected depth in its characters and their need for loving connections. Meanwhile, there's cheesy nostalgia in the '80s trappings, including songs by Carly Simon and Christopher Cross, and Once and Again TV star Sela Ward in an early supporting role. --Jeff Shannon

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  • JoshuasBaby
    JoshuasBaby
    5.0 Stars
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    July 17, 2008
    Love watching this, I thought these two actors did a great job with there characters they make you believe they are really father and son and having these problems.
  • nicolefc
    nicolefc
    3.0 Stars
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    December 28, 2007
    If i were Tom hanks character i would have changed my number. Thank god my parents got divorced when I was 4. It is a very funny movie and touching, but not exactly for my generation.
  • TrevorJ72
    TrevorJ72
    3.0 Stars
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    July 18, 2007
    Kind of a passing of the torch film with the young and up and coming Tom Hanks paired with the legend Jackie Gleason who was in the twilight of his life and career.
  • toupejamster
    toupejamster
    3.0 Stars
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    September 23, 2006
    My girlfriend found this movie at goodwill. i really liked it. it is significant as the only movie i have seen that has a sympathetic view of advertising executives. jackie gleason will make you want to cry as the aging salesman struggling against the tides modernity and his own failing health. tom hanks plays off of eva marie saint well. definitely a labor of love, this movie. Not great by anyone's standards, but a picture of a shifting paradigm, a moment in american culture of unabashed hopefulness, utter cynicism, and on the surface, anti-septic beauty, lithe corporate vampiresses and gleaming high rise facades. rare to see the pathos of the elderly on film.

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