
High Fidelity(2000)
After his long-time girlfriend dumps him, a thirty-year-old record store owner seeks to understand why he is unlucky in love while recounting his "top five breakups of all time".


“The Fab Four without the Mop Tops”
A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager. But behind the scenes, the group’s sudden fame tests their strength, their maturity and responsibility, and their ability to resist the temptations that money and notoriety always make possible.

Tom Hanks
Mr. White

Tom Everett Scott
Guy Patterson

Liv Tyler
Faye Dolan

Johnathon Schaech
Jimmy Mattingly

Steve Zahn
Lenny Haise

Ethan Embry
T.B. Player

Charlize Theron
Tina

Obba Babatundé
Lamarr

Giovanni Ribisi
Chad

Chris Ellis
Phil Horace
That Thing You Do! is a comedy, drama, romance, music film released in 1996 exploring themes of pop star, pennsylvania, usa, record label, recording studio, battle of the bands, 1960s. Directed by Tom Hanks, it stars Tom Hanks, Tom Everett Scott, Liv Tyler. A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager. But behind the scenes, the group’s sudden fame tests their strength, their maturity and responsibility, and their ability to resist the temptations that money and notoriety always make possible.
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