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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9780767881340
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767881346
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: February 19, 2002
Running Time: 118 minutes
Sales Rank: 16476
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: July 30, 1986
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A successful ad man (hanks) must juggle his ever-demanding career while his parents marriage breaks up. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 08/31/2004 Starring: Tom Hanks Run time: 119 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Garry Marshall
Amazon.com:
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 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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Rating: - Nothing in Common
If you like Tom Hanks and Jackie Gleason, you'll love this DVD version of this movie. I saw it on the Pay per View channel and decided to get the DVD. Glad that I did.
Rating:  - Nothing In Common
Tom Hanks in one of his best roles before superstardom.Jackie Gleason's final appearance on film.Eva Marie Saint,Sela Ward,Hector Elizondo supporting actors-wonderful!Emotional pitstop, what a great new phrase.If you have not seen this movie buy it, rent it, wait for it to come on cable,whatever but sit still for an hour and ahalf and enjoy this film.
Rating: - Not as funny as promoted, but an effective comedy-drama.
With my family on a The Honeymooners kick (including the The Lost Episodes) from Gleason's earlier variety show), they wanted to see some later work by him.
Of course, with my family also being Tom Hanks fans, this film was an easy choice for a lazy Sunday afternoon. When I first saw this film it seemed funnier to me, but perhaps that is because the serious stuff really didn't hit home at that point in my youth, but having had my father die a rather lonely and broken man in a nursing home earlier this year, I found this story more poignant than in my youth. The story now rings more true and instead of noticing the comedy in a drama, as I did in my younger days, I am now finding the drama in the comedy. Amazing how life experience can alter a perspective.
Tom Hanks plays, for the upteenth time, an immature adult who can't keep serious relationships, thinks life is one big joke, and, in his own words, moved away from home and just "waited for his parents to die." In spite of his callous nature, both his attitude and behavior is rather realistic and, even likable at times. He just wants to coast through and enjoy life without a lot of emotional baggage and having grown up in a home with a distant and somewhat absent father and a doting, but emotionally frigid mother, one can understand his desire to enjoy and experience a life he never had growing up in the first place; hence, Tom creates a believable character who at times is both lovable and annoying as all hell.
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Rating: - One of Hanks better movies....
Before he went all soporific on everybody. Before he made the ill-advised "Philadelphia" and then the cleverer "Forrest Gump", Hanks was actually a fairly broad comic actor. Some of his movies hit the mark, like "Splash" and "The Money Pit", and others bombed badly, like "The Man With One Red Shoe" and "Bachelor Party". He was great at playing overly-confident, affable yuppies that were almost always put-upon in the extreme or finding themselves in odd situations, like he did in this one.
In this movie, Hanks plays David Basner, a hotshot adman in Chicago, with comical co-workers and upper-middle-aged parents that are breaking up. While he tries romancing the daughter of a major client, (Sela Ward, hubba-hubba!) he also has to deal with his poor father (Jackie Gleason) losing his wife of 40 years and his job, all within the same month! The "tough love" tenderness Basner uses with his dad is offset by the kid gloves he uses with his mother, played by Eva Marie Saint. There are some ingenious comic scenes in this film, such as the ad company presentation to the Texan airline owner client, father of the Sela Ward character, (the woman with the guitar voicing the old lady on the plane is priceless,) and some other ad proposals are done well too. However, it is the later scenes with Max, his father, that will probably get to you the most. This was Jackie Gleason's last movie, and it is LIGHT YEARS better than most of the stuff he starred in late in his career, specifically the "Smokey & ... Read More
Rating:  - Cats in the Cradle Revised
This is the first movie where Tom Hanks really began to show his depth. It was a film that required him to open with the comedic chops he's honed so well but then, because of the deepening of the film's story from comedy to drama, requested so much more of him. He ultimately delivers in spades.
This is really a story about a son moving very fast in the fast lane of advertising. He's a pro and he loves what he does. He's also a personality that lives on charm and in the moment. But when his parents separate after years of marriage, his life changes rapidly from no personal responsibilities to a multitude of them. It's also begs a question that rarely gets told well- how do sons and daughters deal with parents as life turns the tables and we suddenly start having to deal with listening to and taking care of them? The changing of roles and responsibilities. As the film unfolds, it presents those concerns with proper weight, depth, sadness, growth and understanding.
Gary Marshall directed the film prior to his mega hit with Pretty Woman but I really think this is the better film of the two. He draws the best from Jackie Gleason, Eva Marie Saint and Beth Armstrong and Hector Alonzo- each lending a real ensemble cast feeling to the piece and although Tom Hanks shines- so do they.
Jackie Gleason deserves special mention because he really plays a rather hard, sad man at the end of the road as a clothing salesman, and he digs deep, never lending anything false to how ... Read More
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