That Thing You Do!

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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.

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Collection

Not in ACMI's collection

Credits

director

Tom Hanks

costume design

Colleen Atwood

producer

Edward Saxon

Gary Goetzman

Jonathan Demme

production company

20th Century Fox

Clavius Base

Clinica Estetico

production design

Victor Kempster

screenplay

Tom Hanks

Duration

01:48:00

Production places

United States of America

Production dates

1996

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-9591

Language

English

Collected

57 times

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United States of America, 1996