"Actor: Tom Hanks"

• Saving Private Ryan | DVD | (08/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In the last great invasion of the last great war the greatest danger for eight men ...was saving one.Internationally acclaimed by critics and audiences alike Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan is an unforgettable film achievement that has had profound and lasting impact throughout world. Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Director the film also captured Oscars for Cinematography Film Editing Sound and Sound Effects Editing. More than 70 critics (including those at the Time magazine USA Today The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly) and critics' groups in New York Chicago Dallas-Ft. Worth and Great Britain named the film Best Picture Of The Year while the Los Angeles Toronto and Broadcast Film Critics honoured it with both Best Picture and Best Director awards. In addition Spielberg received his third Directors Guild of America Award the American Legion The Spirit Of Normandy Award a USO Merit Award from the USO of Metropolitan Washington as well as the highest civilian public service award from the Department of the Army. Selected for more than 160 Top Ten lists Saving Private Ryan's other honours include Golden Globes for Best Picture (Drama) and Best Director the Producers Guild of America Award and ten nominations from the British Academy Film Awards. Saving Private Ryan was the top-grossing motion picture of 1998.Seen through the eyes of a squad of American soldiers the story begins with World War II's historic D-Day invasion then moves beyond the beach as the men embark on a dangerous special mission. Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private James Ryan whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war each man searches for his own answer - and the strength to triumph over an uncertain future with honour decency and courage.

• Sleepless In Seattle | DVD | (13/07/1998) from £5.29   |  Saving you £14.70 (277.88%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The director and stars of 1998's You've Got Mail scored a breakthrough hit with this hugely popular romantic comedy from 1993, about a recently engaged woman (Meg Ryan) who hears the sad story of a grieving widower (Tom Hanks) on the radio and believes that they are destined to be together. She's single in New York, he lives in Seattle with a young son, but the cross-country attraction proves irresistible and pretty soon Meg's on a westbound flight. What happens from there is... well, you must have been living in a cave to have let this sweet-hearted comedy slip below your pop-cultural radar. There's little complexity or depth to writer-director Nora Ephron's cheesy tale of a romantic fait accompli, and more than a little contrivance to the subplots that threaten to keep Hanks and Ryan from actually meeting. But the purity of star chemistry here is hard to deny, and this may be the first film to indicate the more serious and sympathetic side of Hanks that is revealed in later roles. With its clever jokes about "chick movies" and repeated homage to the classic weeper An Affair to Remember, this may not be everybody's brand of amorous entertainment, but it's got an old-Hollywood charm that appeals to many a movie fan. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• The Movies - HBO Series | DVD | (21/12/2020) from £28.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From Emmy® Award-winning executive producers Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman in association with HBO and Emmy® Award-winning producer Mark Herzog, CNN Original Series The Movies explores American cinema through the decades and the cultural, societal and political shifts that framed its evolution. Combining archival footage and interviews with leading actors, directors, producers, critics and historians, the series showcases the most pivotal moments in film that have stirred the imagination and influenced our culture. The series features interviews with Paul Thomas Anderson, Alec Baldwin, Ellen Burstyn, Tim Burton, Cameron Crowe, Billy Crystal, Robert De Niro, Jon Favreau, Antoine Fuqua, Morgan Freeman, Bill Hader, Tom Hanks, Amy Heckerling, Ron Howard, Holly Hunter, Angelica Huston, Baz Luhrmann, Julianne Moore, Ed Norton, Rob Reiner, Molly Ringwald, Maya Rudolph, Ridley Scott, John Singleton, Sharon Stone, Robert Zemeckis and many more.