Pennsylvania band the 'Oneders' become a sensation after their drummer breaks his arm, and is replaced by jazz enthusiast, Guy Patterson, who injects something a bit different into their music.
19 May 1964, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
26 June 1955, Ogden, Utah, USA
26 July 1946, New York City, New York, USA
5 October 1962, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
12 September 1955, New Rochelle, New York, USA
10 November 1942, Pittston, Pennsylvania, USA
6 January 1960, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA
7 August 1975, Benoni, Transvaal, South Africa
25 June 1977
7 July 1964, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
10 September 1969, Edgewood, Maryland, USA
13 November 1967, Marshall, Minnesota, USA
30 October 1957, San Francisco, California, USA
2 September 1969, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
18 August 1966, Chicago, Illinois, USA
April 17, 2016
It's absolutely impossible not to smile when "The Wonders" hear their song on the radio for the first time.
December 17, 2007
First-time writer/director Tom Hanks stays about a half-beat ahead of the cliches with rim shots of boyish enthusiasm and deft comedy. The movie's also buoyed by the title song, whose Beatles sound is infectious enough to merit a real hit.
January 03, 2007
A sweet, likeable tale of the quick rise to fame and then demise of a small town band. Set in 1964, Hanks' film offers a sanitized, Gump-ish look at a mythical period when boys were boys and girls were girls, with no references to the sex-drug subculture
October 04, 2016
The chief wonder of this rock 'n' roll cast is Tom Everett Scott, whose easy charisma, dreamy smile and undersurface intelligence should shoot him up the acting charts like a bullet.
June 24, 2006
Sweet nothing, then, but what would you expect of a rock movie devoted to the drummer?
December 18, 2010
Sweet, sleepy take on flash-in-the-pan '60s band.
July 08, 2010
A movie as catchy and likable as the title song.
March 29, 2013
Tom Hanks directorial effort is a decent film overall, but nothing that would ever inspire to re-visit again and again with fondness.
March 30, 2016
Call it a sanitized version of The Commitments.
May 10, 2009
Whereas Dances With Wolves was an epic cultural tract, That Thing You Do! is a piece of entertaining bubblegum which, like its director, making his feature directorial debut, is high on charm and style.
December 17, 2007
Though Hanks keeps the satirical and critical aspects of this look at show biz fairly light, there's a lot of conviction and savvy behind the steadiness of his gaze.
May 20, 2003
Mr. Hanks's debut feature, written and directed with delightful good cheer, is rock-and-roll nostalgia presented as pure fizz.
