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Tom Hanks Biography and Forrest Gump
(2007-02-05 10:32:00)American leading actor
Tom Hanks has become one of the most popular stars in contemporary
American cinema. Born July 9, 1956, in Concord, CA, Hanks spent
much of his childhood moving about with his father, an itinerant
cook, and continually attempting to cope with constantly changing
schools, religions, and stepmothers. After settling in Oakland, CA,
he began performing in high-school plays. He continued acting while
attending Cal State, Sacramento, and left to pursue his vocation
full-time. In 1978, Hanks went to find work in New York; while
there he married actress/producer Samantha Lewes, whom he later
divorced.
Hanks debuted onscreen in the low-budget slasher movie He Knows You're Alone (1979). Shortly afterward he moved to Los Angeles and landed a co-starring role in the TV sitcom Bosom Buddies; he also worked occasionally in other TV series such as Taxi and Family Ties, as well as in the TV movie Mazes and Monsters. Hanks finally became prominent when he starred opposite Daryl Hannah in the Disney comedy Splash!, which became the sleeper hit of 1984. Audiences were drawn to the lanky, curly headed actor's amiable, laid-back style and keen sense of comic timing. He went on to appear in a string of mostly unsuccessful comedies before starring in Big (1988), in which he gave a delightful performance as a child in a grown man's body. His 1990 film Bonfire of the Vanities was one of the biggest bombs of the year, but audiences seemed to forgive his lapse. In 1992, Hanks' star again rose when he played the outwardly disgusting, inwardly warm-hearted coach in Penny Marshall's A League of Their Own. This led to a starring role in the smash hit
Hanks debuted onscreen in the low-budget slasher movie He Knows You're Alone (1979). Shortly afterward he moved to Los Angeles and landed a co-starring role in the TV sitcom Bosom Buddies; he also worked occasionally in other TV series such as Taxi and Family Ties, as well as in the TV movie Mazes and Monsters. Hanks finally became prominent when he starred opposite Daryl Hannah in the Disney comedy Splash!, which became the sleeper hit of 1984. Audiences were drawn to the lanky, curly headed actor's amiable, laid-back style and keen sense of comic timing. He went on to appear in a string of mostly unsuccessful comedies before starring in Big (1988), in which he gave a delightful performance as a child in a grown man's body. His 1990 film Bonfire of the Vanities was one of the biggest bombs of the year, but audiences seemed to forgive his lapse. In 1992, Hanks' star again rose when he played the outwardly disgusting, inwardly warm-hearted coach in Penny Marshall's A League of Their Own. This led to a starring role in the smash hit
romantic comedy
Sleepless in Seattle (1993). Although a fine comedic actor, Hanks
earned critical respect and an even wider audience when he played a
tormented AIDS-afflicted homosexual lawyer in the drama
Philadelphia (1993) and won that year's Oscar for Best Actor. In
1994 he won again for his convincing portrait of the slow-witted
but phenomenally lucky Forrest Gump, and his success continued with
the smash space epic Apollo 13 (1995). In 1996, Hanks tried his
hand at screenwriting, directing, and starring in a feature: That
Thing You Do!, an upbeat tale of a one-hit
wonder group and their
manager. The film was not particularly successful, unlike Hanks'
next directing endeavor, the TV miniseries From Earth to the Moon.
The series was nominated for and won a slew of awards, including a
series of Emmys. The success of this project was outdone by Hanks'
next, Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998). Ryan won vast
critical acclaim and was nominated for 11 Oscars, including a Best
Actor nomination for Hanks. The film won five,including a Best
Director Oscar for Spielberg, but lost Best Picture to Shakespeare
in Love, a slight that was to become the subject of controversy. No
controversy surrounded Hanks' following film, Nora Ephron's You've
Got Mail (1998), a romantic comedy that paired Hanks with his
Sleepless co-star Meg Ryan. Although the film got mixed reviews, it
was popular with filmgoers, and thus provided Hanks with another
success to add to his resumé. Even more success came soon after
when Hanks took home the 2000 Golden Globes' Best Actor in a drama
award for his portrayal of a shipwrecked FedEx systems engineer who
learns the virtues of wasted time in Robert Zemeckis' Cast Away.
Though absent from the silver screen in 2001, Hanks remained in the
public eye with a role in the acclaimed HBO mini-series Band of
Brothers as well as appearing in September
11 television special
America: A Tribute to Heroes and the documentary Rescued From the
Closet. Next teaming with American Beauty director Sam Mendes for
the adaptation of Max Allan Collins graphic novel The Road to
Perdition (subsequently inspired by the Japanese manga -Lone Wolf
and Cub, the nice-guy star took a rare anti-hero role as a hitman
(albiet an honorable and fairly respectable hitman) on the lam with
his son (Tyler Hoechlin) after his son witnesses a murder. That
same year, Hanks collaborated with director Spielberg again,
starring opposite Leonardo Dicaprio in the hit crime-comedy Catch
Me if You Can.
For the next two years, Hanks was essentially absent from movie screens, but in 2004 he emerged with three new projects: The Coen Brothers' The Lady Killers, yet another Spielberg helmed film, The Terminal, and The Polar Express, a family picture from Forrest Gump and Castaway director Robert Zemeckis. 2006 was a very active year for Hanks starting with an appearance at the Oscar telecast that talented lip-readers will remember for quite some time. In addition to helping produce the HBO Series Big Love, he scored a major international success by reteaming with director Ron Howard for the big-screen adaptation of Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code.
For the next two years, Hanks was essentially absent from movie screens, but in 2004 he emerged with three new projects: The Coen Brothers' The Lady Killers, yet another Spielberg helmed film, The Terminal, and The Polar Express, a family picture from Forrest Gump and Castaway director Robert Zemeckis. 2006 was a very active year for Hanks starting with an appearance at the Oscar telecast that talented lip-readers will remember for quite some time. In addition to helping produce the HBO Series Big Love, he scored a major international success by reteaming with director Ron Howard for the big-screen adaptation of Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code.
His Playtone production
company also had a hand in the animated feature The Ant Bully. That
same year he filmed The Great Buck Howard co-starring his son Colin
Hanks, and signed on to co-star with Julia Roberts in Mike Nichols'
Charlie Wilson's War. Ranked by Empire Magazine as 17th out of "The
Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" in October 1997, Hanks is married
to actress Rita Wilson, with whom he appeared in Volunteers (1985).
The couple have two children in addition to Hanks' other two from
his previous marriage.
Forrest Gump Summary:
"Stupid is as stupid does," says
Forrest Gump (played by Tom Hanks in an Oscar-winning performance)
as he discusses his relative level of intelligence with a stranger
while waiting for a bus. Despite his sub-normal IQ, Gump leads a
truly charmed life, with a ringside seat for many of the most
memorable events of the second half of the 20th century. Entirely
without trying, Forrest teaches Elvis Presley to dance, becomes a
football star, meets John F. Kennedy, serves with honor in Vietnam,
meets Lyndon Johnson, speaks at an anti-war rally at the Washington
Monument, hangs out with the Yippies, defeats the Chinese national
team in table tennis, meets Richard Nixon, discovers the break-in
at the Watergate, opens a profitable shrimping business, becomes an
original investor in Apple Computers, and decides to run back and
forth across the country for several years. Meanwhile, as the
remarkable parade of his life goes by, Forrest never forgets Jenny
(Robin Wright Penn), the girl he loved as a boy, who makes her own
journey through the turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s that is far
more troubled than the path Forrest happens upon. Featured
alongside Tom Hanks are Sally Field as Forrest's mother; Gary
Sinise as his commanding officer in Vietnam; Mykelti Williamson as
his ill-fated Army buddy who is familiar with every recipe that
involves shrimp; and the special effects artists whose digital
magic place Forrest amidst a remarkable array of historical events
and people.
Forrest Gump Reviews:
Forrest Gump is the Baby Boom
generation's tribute to itself, a panorama of American culture from
the sleepy South of the 1950s to the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s.
The film is a technical masterpiece, skillfully weaving together
numerous cultural reference points, all without ever causing the
audience to pause for thought. Director Robert Zemeckis and a team
of top-notch special effects experts convincingly combined actors
with archival footage so that Gump (Michael Conner Humphreys as a
child and Tom Hanks as an adult) gets to interact with many famous
personalities of the day. Of particular note are Gump's scenes at
the University of Alabama, where Forrest meets then-governor George
Wallace (via newsreel footage) and football coach Bear Bryant
(actor Sonny Shroyer). Similarly outstanding are the sequences set
in Vietnam and the later shrimpboat scenes with Gump's best friend
(Gary Sinise), a legless war veteran. Forrest Gump won six Oscars,
including Best Picture, over critical favorites Pulp Fiction and
The Shawshank Redemption. An interesting sidelight to Hanks' Best
Actor win is Jessica Lange's also set-in-Alabama Best Actress
performance in Blue Sky in the same year. The wins, however, did
not lead Hollywood to rush to set more films in the "Heart of
Dixie" state.
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